Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging

Just recently Microsoft Open R 3.5 was announced, as an open source implementation of R with some improvements. Binaries are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. I dared to download and play around with...

^{www.preining.info} Honestly, I don't think that malice was involved, just incompetence, possibly aggravated by compartimentalization.

It is however a good reminder of how upstreams may be the ones who know their product best, but that doesn't necessarily make them the ones best suited to do the integration work necessary to install it without breaking the rest of your system.