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Re:Free Software Is More Reliable (2011) by boogies on Monday October 19, 2020 @07:53PM (#24832423)
Would it really be “a massive undertaking to go GNU Octave” when its syntax is a superset of MATLAB’s?

Either way, in the longer term I think saving a bit of money wouldn’t hurt, spending some sponsoring Free software could eventually catch it up to competitors, and having Free industry standard tools more easily accessible to future engineers to begin decades of training earlier could benefit enterprises.

Re:Free Software Is More Reliable (2011) by ryl00 on Monday October 19, 2020 @09:07PM (#24833003)
> Would it really be “a massive undertaking to go GNU Octave” when its syntax is a superset of MATLAB’s?

Does anyone actually use MATLAB just for the "MATLAB" part of it? Where I work, it's the Simulink part that's locked us in... I'm still not sure how MATRIXx withered away and gave Mathworks free reign in the control systems design space...

Re:Free Software Is More Reliable (2011) by systemvoltage on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:38PM (#24832765)
I don’t mind paying for software I guess.