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From: | Victor Salit |
Subject: | Re: Octave's goals and motivations (Re: GUI) |
Date: | Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:37:39 +0200 |
I disagree with your 20% windows number. maybe 0.2%. You are forgetting the fact that octave/matlab is a highly technical and specialized product. It's vary rare. Just as an example, I work in company doing R&D and manufacturing, and of the 30 desktops one is linux, the other are windows. Only 3 people use octave. And this is in a technology company. What percentage of lawyer firm's windows desktops need octave/matlab? How many netbooks users (with windows installed) need octave/matlab?
Shaip.s. asides from this argument about number of users, the simple fact is that the active contributors don't use windows and dont; develop for windows. As an open source project, octave goes in the direction that the contributors set -- that's life. If you want octave to go in some direction, there are 2 ways: contribute and/or pay someone to do it. You can't force contributors who do this for fun to something which is not fun for them ...
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