2011/9/29 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
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2011/9/29 Victor Salit <address@hidden>:
> 2011/9/29 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <
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>> On 28 September 2011 18:40, tilas <
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>> > BTW, I do not think anyone sees Octave as "just a Matlab clone of
>> > mediocre quality". Though it is a Matlab clone
>>
>> I am almost certain that none of us working on Octave see it as a
>> Matlab clone.
>
> This is quite off-topic.
Well, if you want to understand where Octave comes from and where is
it going, you will be disappointed if you see it as a Matlab clone,
just as you will be disappointed if you see LaTeX as Microsoft Word
clone.
I won't be disappointed. You know there are facts and there are perceptions. You say the fact is Octave is an alternative and not a clone. I tend to agree with you. But still many percept octave as a clone. You can't fight with that. All you can do is make it available so that people can judge for themselves.
As far as your comparisons go the MS Office should be compared with OpenOffice and not to LaTeX in this case.
But there should be no reason to choose a non-free OS. It creates many
societal problems (DRM, spying, abusive business practices, region
lockout, malware, vendor lock-in).
Well you do not expect people to quit their jobs just because their employer has installed windows OS on his computers, do you?
And while it is possible at times to get something from the open source world like Notepad++, there is absolutely no chance to make a corporation with more than 10K employees to change the OS.
Hell, we are still using Office2003. And there is no chance to install MikTeX.
It's not a war. Use whatever you like. I'm not telling you to not use
Windows. I'm just telling you that you shouldn't have any reason to do
so, and I find it sad that you do have those reasons.
Well I do, see above.
I would prefer a
world without Windows, so I work towards that.
Best of luck...
Victor