True. Octave is on the list. As mentioned in the Reddit thread though: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html A l

True. Octave is on the list. As mentioned in the Reddit thread though: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority.html A lot of companies need to use Matlab because of the large codebase out there that is written in MatLab. While Octave is good numpy/scipy/matplotlib are also free (in both meanings of the word) and great software. There is also Sage. So get started writing machine learning libraries in Python!