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Why do you need to be rich for gnuplot? Aren't gnu things generally GPL?
by strombofulous 6y ago
Why do you need to be rich for gnuplot? Aren't gnu things generally GPL?
- bobbylarrybobby 6y agoMy guess is they’re referring the need for lots of compute power to get it to run in a reasonable time, which is expensive
- touisteur 6y agoSorry it was a bit tongue in cheek. On many systems I work with and have to debug, gnuplot won't be already installed (and won't be installable on a system not connected to the Internet) so 'rich' would be 'flush in packages with a full system available'. Sometimes, even imagemagick isn't there, but rsvg-convert is, you can still do amazing things with just bash+curl+svg...
- boomboomsubban 6y agoApparently gnuplot is unrelated to GNU, and the original developers were making a pun on "newplot." It's license is a bit complicated, which is why most systems don't have it.
- touisteur 6y agoOr the IT security guys that expertly hand-picked all your available packages for minimum attack surface removed it (but let imagemagick... after some time you stop asking some questions :-)