| I completely agree with John and his team of octave developers.
|
| We started our company some 8-9 months back in Bangalore
| with little funding. We have lot of signal processing and
| image processing background. One matlab license would have
| costed us 7500$ which would have eaten up into all that we
| had to start a self-funded company.
|
| It is only due to Octave that we could do 2 months of design
| consultancy project at one of our client company and it is
| only because of Octave we could do 90 hours of DSP
| corporate training to another client company.
|
| One of the companies here wanted the training in Matlab,
| and we are doing that. Interestingly all the slides could
| be prepared using Octave. In the first 1/2 hour of introduction,
| I told the audience about Octave, and also told that this is
| the first time I am doing training on "Octave Competitor Product".
|
| John, I am too small to make a contribution. But the day we
| become something significant, I surely would love to.
|
| Thanks to the team once again for all their efforts, their love
| and their passion towards Octave.
|
| Long live Octave and it's developers.
|
| Thanks and Regards
| Bharat Pathak
|
| Arithos Designs
| www.Arithos.com
|
| DSP Design Consultancy and Training Company.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "John W. Eaton" <address@hidden>
| To: "Brian Kirklin" <address@hidden>
| Cc: <address@hidden>
| Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 8:45 PM
| Subject: Octave vs. Matlab (was: Re: alphabetical list of Octave
functions)
|
|
| > On 12-Jun-2008, Brian Kirklin wrote:
| >
| > | As long as there are advantages to using Matlab over Octave there
will
| > | always be people who use Matlab. In particular, you rarely have to
worry
| > | about bugs when working with Matlab, there are significant speed
| > | advantages due to JIT compiling, the graphics end doesn't crash, and
| > | everything is well documented, etc.
| > |
| > | I love Octave, but its main advantage is that it is free, and for
now it
| > | is still behind Matlab in a lot of the areas it needs to pick up on
for
| > | a company to ever outright replace Matlab. That said, I will
continue to
| > | use Octave because it is extremely powerful and useful, but its
| > | understandable that there are still Matlab users.
| >
| > I'm sorry that Octave doesn't quite measure up for you. If you would
| > like to see that situation change, then please consider helping to
| > improve it rather than just telling us that it is inferior in oh so
| > many ways. I don't think that many of the people who are working on
| > Octave find that kind of criticism encouraging or productive.
| >
| > Meanwhile, you are funding the development of Matlab but not Octave,
| > yet you expect Octave to somehow equal or even exceed the features and
| > performance of Matlab? How do you expect that to happen?
| >
| > I'd say that given the resources we have had for Octave development,
| > our community has done a remarkable job. Imagine how much better
| > Octave could be if we had even the small amount of funding necessary
| > to pay five of the most talented contributors to work on Octave full
| > time instead of just doing that work in their "spare" time.
| >
| > How many Matlab licenses would that be? I'd guess not many. Perhaps
| > your company (and others) would be willing to divert some fraction its
| > budget for proprietary software to the development of free software
| > tools like Octave?
| >
| > jwe
| > _______________________________________________
| > Help-octave mailing list
| > address@hidden
| > https://www.cae.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/help-octave
| >
|
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