Perhaps it would be better to put it as "is to make sure people who are already stuck with Matlab scripts don't have to deal with Mathworks". Scilab is already

Perhaps it would be better to put it as "is to make sure people who are already stuck with Matlab scripts don't have to deal with Mathworks". Scilab is already open source, and GCC has a Fortran backend, so I don't see how those are relevant