Octave is GNU, and the GNU project prefers to speak of free software than open source: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html http://w

Octave is GNU, and the GNU project prefers to speak of free software than open source: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.h... The philosophical distinction matters a lot to me. I don't work on Octave because I think this is a better development model. I work on it because I think we should all be free to read and share our code and our algorithms.