Switch to Miniforge by default

[benz0li]

Anaconda seems to actively contact organisations with two hundred (200) or more employees regarding the requirement of a paid license (Anaconda Business or Anaconda Enterprise) in order to legally access their default channel (repo.anaconda.com)¹.

2. USERS & LICENSING

2.1 Organizational Use. Your registration, download, use, installation, access, or enjoyment of all Anaconda Offerings on behalf of an organization that has two hundred (200) or more employees or contractors (“Organizational Use”) requires a paid license of Anaconda Business or Anaconda Enterprise. For sake of clarity, use by government entities and nonprofit entities with over 200 employees or contractors is considered Organizational Use.

– https://legal.anaconda.com/policies/en/#terms-of-service

R is open source software. Most users are not aware that Miniconda (the default for reticulate) uses a freemium business model that could cause their employer legal trouble.

Therefore, Miniforge – which uses conda-forge as the default channel – should be considered as the new default.

Footnotes

1. To be clear: They have every right to do so. ↩

[benz0li]

Cross reference:

• Switch from Miniconda to Miniforge jupyter/docker-stacks#1189

[t-kalinowski]

Thanks for raising the issue. I agree this is something we should do for the next release.

Would you like to submit a PR?

[benz0li]

Would you like to submit a PR?

Unfortunately not. I am swamped with work.