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Re: [slightly OT]: Octave featured in Free Software magazine
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David Bateman |
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Re: [slightly OT]: Octave featured in Free Software magazine |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Jun 2007 22:55:17 +0200 |
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John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 5-Jun-2007, Jordi Gutierrez Hermoso wrote:
>
> | This isn't a question about help, but it's nice to see that Octave got
> | mentioned in Free Software Magazine and was quite favourably compared
> | as "an almost perfect clone of MATLAB."
>
>>From TFA:
>
> Being such a perfect MATLAB clone it shares all of MATLAB?s advantages
> and all its disadvantages like its speed. The only exception being its
> price.
>
> And that's a statement in "Free Software Magazine"? Huh? At least
> there is a link on the front page that points to an attempt at an
> explanation of free software that includes the lines:
>
> What is free software?
>
> Wherever you encounter free software, you?ll find the term free is
> being used in relation to freedom and not cost. You may also
> encounter the phrase ?Free as in speech, not as in beer? which
> reinforces this idea. Whilst reading this article I suggest you
> forget about cost altogether as it might be a distraction.
>
> And even here, there seems to be some confusion about "cost"
> vs. "price".
>
> Perl wins? Really? Ugh.
>
> jwe
>
He gets all the speed difference as Alex points out from the use of the
PDL clip function and forcing Octave/Matlab to use something less efficient.
D.