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From: | David Bateman |
Subject: | Re: Octave presentation |
Date: | Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:02:03 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) |
Jaroslav Hajek wrote:
Octave inevitably is competition Mathworks... They choose to ignore Octave for now with the specious argument that experience with octave prepares the user for a much better experience with Matlab.... Sure that might be true now (though less and less true as time goes on), once the users themselves realize their own contributions make Octave better a certain point will pass that Octave will be "good enough" for a larger and larger group of users, and that momentum will make the improvement in Octave exponential.. We are really getting to that point now in my opinion, and so soon Mathworks won't be able to ignore Octave. I'd say their reaction, based on past experience might be something like their lawsuits against COMSOL. That isOn Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:09 AM, David Bateman <address@hidden> wrote:Julius Smith wrote:At 06:13 PM 11/4/2008, David Bateman wrote:I'll believe the R/S vs Octave/Matlab thing when Cleve Moler contributes to Octave..That would be unlikely at this point since Cleve Moler is "chairman and chief scientist" at The Mathworks: <http://www.mathworks.com/company/aboutus/founders/clevemoler.html>That was kind of my point.. The founder of S is a contributor to R and the same can't be said for Matlab/Octave.Yes, we have a tougher position :) I sometimes wonder whether Mathworks views Octave as a competition. I guess not. Yet, at the same time, my intended talk about Octave at the TCP'08 conference in Prague (organized by local Matlab reseller and quite Matlab-centric) has been disapproved by the international comittee, of which C. Moler is a chairman. (The organizer's reply seemed to carry a tone of surprise, suggesting that not approving a contribution is not really common). Yes they offered me a poster session but I don't have time for making posters now. Anyway, next year I'm going to try again just for the fun of it. cheer
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-txedce/case_no-6:2006cv00334/case_id-97908/
for the patent case andhttp://dockets.justia.com/docket/court-txedce/case_no-6:2006cv00335/case_id-97909/
for the copyright case. Though who they can sue will be interesting to see and the backlash against a company that tries to sue volonteers contributing to the public good without profit for themselves will be interesting to see as well.
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