Re:Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
by roel_v on Sunday September 29, 2013 @05:27AM
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"but I want anyone in the world to be able to check my work exactly."
The problem is not that they can't, the problem is they don't want to. Solve the real problems first before worrying about imaginary ones. (this is one of the main flaws in most of GNU rhetoric, btw, and I say this as someone who 10 years ago made the 'access to source code is a moral right' argument and actually believed it).
Re:Why Free Software Is More Important Now Than Ever Before
by guard-of-terra on Sunday September 29, 2013 @06:11AM
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Once you solved "real problems" you made a lot of choices you're going to regret. But it's too late.
We have enough solutions for real problems but few good ones. Good enough is not good enough. Time to think up front.
Check out GNU Octave:
www.octave.org
It's not Matlab (particularly toolboxes), but for day-to-day work, it's fine, and it will run a lot of *.m files. All of my thesis data analysis is done in Octave. I could choose Matlab (we have a site license), but I want anyone in the world to be able to check my work exactly.