I've seen some crazy binary-only, extremely niche products used in academia / sciences. I could not be happier that, at least for new stuff, Linux is very much

I've seen some crazy binary-only, extremely niche products used in academia / sciences. I could not be happier that, at least for new stuff, Linux is very much becoming a first-class citizen for work that academics do. Sadly, device manufacturers ("We sell a device for measuring methane emissions from squirrels!") aren't quite there yet...