Re: Contribution to Octave as a PM

[fgnievinski]

Agreed; we could borrow from AOO:

<http://www.openoffice.org/why/>

"Great software; Easy to use; and it's free!"

-F.

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 6:33 AM, CdeMills [via Octave] <[hidden email]> wrote:

The opensource ecosystem is vast and diversified.

On the one hand, you're right that Octave could benefit from funding. OTOH, promoting Octave as the-poor-man  MatLab does not seems adaquate to me. At first, we will appear as a MatLab concurrent, and as so will become a "target" for actions. Second, when I see students from countries where copyright laws are less enforced, they all have crackeds version of you-just-name-it. They prefer to use some MatLab of dubious ancestry because "it is standard". They mean it both ways: everybody write and diffuse code in THIS language, and everybody crack it.

I thus conclude that "money" should not be the only argument; we should agree on other metrics to promote actions around Octave.

Regards

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