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AGPL license, interesting. I suppose the plan is to monetize with a hosting/SaaS service?

Edit: Found the answer on their blog:

> RStudio is also a company, and we plan to sell services (support, training, consulting, hosting) related to the open-source software we distribute.

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I'd be curious to hear their calculus for why they thought this services route would be more lucrative than selling the product and services.

It seems like the type of product that people who would balk at purchasing it would be the same type to balkat most types of services listed (except maybe hosting).

For us, it was never about which approach was more lucrative. We want RStudio to be the de facto IDE for R. How could it be anything but open source?

Yes, but there are multiple open source licenses, including, but not limited to, GLP (which is used by R), AGPL, LGPL and BSD.

Also notice there are other non-open-source alternatives such as the IDE of Revolution.

I am very happy to see the way this is turning out...

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