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Re: Including Octave in NCLab
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Pavel Solin |
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Re: Including Octave in NCLab |
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Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:29:19 -0700 |
Hello, thank you very much for the prompt reply. Allow me a brief
explanation why NCLab is not completely free, as you suggested.
NCLab is free for you and any other individual user and we even
pay for the cloud resources that you use. But NCLab can't be
completely free for institutions whose resource utilization is much
heavier. We are not bored millionaires, unfortunately. But if you
compare the price o NCLab to any other software such as
Matlab (where resources are not included), the subscription fee
for NCLab is embarassingly small.
I am not sure whether the Octave team has any plans to enable
free use of Octave in the cloud, but this is exactly what we want
to do, with the kind permission of Octave developers. This will
make Octave and other softwares included in NCLab easier to
use, so everyone should benefit from that. Again - individual users
will not pay anything for using Octave or other tools in NCLab.
Sincerely,
Pavel
2012/4/14 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
<address@hidden>
As far as GPL compliance goes, it's probably ok, if I understand
correctly how it's working. I wouldn't like to endorse non-free
software, though, so if you can make NCLab free, that would be much
preferrable (and if it were free, you wouldn't even have to be asking
us if it's ok to use Octave with it).
- Jordi G. H.
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Pavel Solin
University of Nevada, Reno
http://hpfem.org/~pavel