I thought you mentioned stopping in the email you sent before this one? (Or was that only applicble to other people?)
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:30 PM, Matthias-Christian Ott <o...@mirix.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:58:31PM +0200, pancake wrote: >> When I was in the university I had to use matlab. Proffessors told me >> that I can use the windows boxes in place, but for personal reasons >> (time and so) I proposed them to use the telnet interface and use it >> remotely. >> >> It happened that their license didn't allowed them to export the >> application via network. Which is IMHO a very stupid and privative >> limitation. >> >> At this point I decided to install octave on a remote netbsd box, add >> some fixes to the package and I develop all the tasks finding >> equivalences between the sintaxes. >> >> The last page of my work was an explanation of the reasons for using it. >> I just explain that I don't support software that limits my freedom and >> possibilities, and I also explain how incorrect is to teech people with >> privative tools. >> >> They accept my project but things didn't changed. > > At least you didn't loose your dignity, carried out your principles and > proofed that Free Software is as powerful as an expensive proprietary > software. > > Regards, > Matthias-Christian > >> On Apr 27, 2009, at 9:05 PM, Amit Uttamchandani <atu13...@csun.edu> >> wrote: >> >>>>> Except some of us don't have a choice and have to use this for their >>>>> work or at uni... >>>> >>>> Well, what about GNU Octave? Mathematica seems to have become as >>>> much a >>>> disease as Fortran was in last decades. >>>> >>> >>> I once tried to explain to my professor if I could use Octave instead >>> of Matlab but he wouldn't even hear of it...I even tried explaining >>> that is compatible, etc., etc. but no luck... >>> >> > > -- cheers, dave tweed__________________________ computer vision reasearcher: david.tw...@gmail.com "while having code so boring anyone can maintain it, use Python." -- attempted insult seen on slashdot
