[Gretl-users] On Propagation Of GRETL (fwd)

Hello all, I recently heard from a Free Software advocate in India who makes a good point. His mail reads, in part: "Though I don't know econometrics I have followed the development of GRETL with some interest since I am both a teacher and student of economics from India and a partisan of Free Software. "However the majority of my friends, colleagues and acquaintances who are into econometrics don't warm up to GRETL because there is no step-by-step migration guide from their current econometrics software to GRETL. I request you to consider including a lengthy section or brief chapter in the User Manual of GRETL of a step-by-step migration guide for 1. Migration from Stata to GRETL 2. Migration from SPSS to GTRETL 3. Migration from Eviews to GRETL "E.g: If AAA is done this way in Stata then AAA is done in that way in GRETL. If this can be done, I believe an important blow can be struck at the hegemony of proprietary software in the field of Econometrics." I think this is an excellent idea (in particular with regard to Stata and Eviews). Any volunteers for writing some material on this? I'm not a good candidate myself since I spend all of my time on gretl and have relatively little experience working with proprietary software. Allin Cottrell