While I think you have a valid point here, I think matlab marketing department has caught on here and thus offering free student licenses. This is the same stra

While I think you have a valid point here, I think matlab marketing department has caught on here and thus offering free student licenses. This is the same strategy employed by MS in at least India. Let them get it for free or give it for free. Also, companies which use matlab and develop a technology lock in are not after the language features, they are after the toolbox features. I hate matlab as a language as much as the next guy, but there isn't any competition for its toolboxes like antenna design, RF design, Risk management, OPC, instrumentation control (this one labview is another horrible but not alternative), etc.