Re: octave + mkl

[Joshua Dillon]

Sorry I didn't intend to start a fight.  ...Just thought "It was
useful to me and may be useful to others."

Cheers,

Josh

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Francesco Potortì <address@hidden> wrote:
>>MKL probably works faster.
>>
>>If so, end users care much more about performance than about ideology.
>
> If people cared much more about performance than about ideology Octave
> would simply not exist.
>
> Please be more careful with your wording.  The Octave community does not
> like to promote non-free software.
>
>>End users, as long as they don't distribute Octave, have full right to
>>combine free and non-free SW inside their version of Octave (of course,
>>provided non-free SW license doesn't prohibit using it with free SW).
>
> No one said anything different from this.
>
>>It's very good there are people who promote ways to build faster Octave
>>- despite your ideological objections.
>
> Not here, please.  This community is mainly interested in free ways to
> speed up Octave.
>
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