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US military ban locks two Chinese universities out of popular software
- angled 6y agoI thought this might be of interest, as the affected researchers mention OSS tools as a possible replacement. A shame that GNU Octave didn't get a mention!
- mytailorisrich 6y agoMatlab is an industry standard on the same level MS Office may be so that's significant. On the other hand, as said in the article it isn't irreplaceable and the long term effect of this ban may be to erode Matlab's dominance when no-one would have bothered otherwise...
- xvilka 6y agoBest day for GNU Octave[1] and Sage Math [2], I suppose. Also Julia[3] language, probably. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ [2] https://www.sagemath.org/ https://www.sagemath.org/ [3] https://julialang.org/ https://julialang.org/