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The thread "R licensing query" currently running has raised the classic critcisms of using Excel for statistics. I was wondering: Has anyone applied the same or similar set of tests to OpenOffice "calc"? Or would the Executive Summary be: "Calc is just like Excel"? (Not that I'm a spreadsheet user, if I can avoid it; but I sometimes get asked about su...

...menus, and lots of widget layouts, plus it launches two kinds of background tasks. I learned a lot about wxruby and wxwindows as I worked on it, so I hope you will benefit from seeing the source code. It is at: http://rubyforge.org/projects/redwood/ Please give me feedback on the code, including critcisms and questions. Open source is all about sharing and learning. Cheers, Kevin