While recruiting at UT Austin petroleum engineering school recently, I was impressed how embedded Matlab has become there. The students use Matlab for big semes

While recruiting at UT Austin petroleum engineering school recently, I was impressed how embedded Matlab has become there. The students use Matlab for big semester projects and everyday scratchpad computation. I believe it's a required skill. I don't know the licensing arrangement Mathworks made with them. It's common for software companies to donate licenses to engineering and science departments. It's a loss leader, and presumably lots of the students will pull Matlab licenses into their employers later. But Matlab is so ubiquitous there, and so integrated into the curriculum, it could be that money did change hands. I wonder if there's an opening along those line for a revenue stream for Octave?