Vgchartz taking advertising too far?

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Kasz216 said:
If you've ever done what Ioi does, you'd know it's some pretty complicated stuff that few people would do for fun. (I like it, but like i said... very few... and even I am not so much in love with all that hard work to go out of my way to find info like that.  Well i couldn't anyway since statistical programs are expensive as hell and I refuse to pirate.)

 Aren't there free statistical programs out there? I don't know how good they are in comparison to commercial programs (neither do I know anything about statistical softwares) but there are something like R or DataPlot...