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For people who only know how to use Matlab, Octave is one less reason to go non-free.

• joelthelion 15y ago
  I disagree. It's one reason for them to try a free software package, decide that it sucks (it lacks most of the interesting libraries), and go back to using Matlab forever. If on the other hand they were introduced to the python stack, which has a superior language and a lot of neat libraries (though not yet on par with Matlab), they might have a chance of sticking to it.
  • Peaker 15y ago
    Porting Matlab code to Octave is much easier -- including more libraries.