Hi,
In our Math department we are rapidly replacing Matlab (commercial and VERY expensive !) with Octave (GNU Open Source). I wonder: wouldn't it be a better to make a connection to an Open Source project like Octave instead ?
Matlab is squeezing lot's of money out of people. They try to connect just about anything to their software so that users won't even consider using anything else (apart for those who pay the bills ;-).
But I don't think that FlightGear - as an outstanding Open Source project - should co-operate in making this nasty company even more powerful ...
Even Airbus seemed to be fed up with the Matlab tax-collectors and started developing their own Open Source Matlab-clone already some years ago : SciLab.
Well, whenever the FlightGear Matlab connection is done it would be easy to adapt Octave to use the same protocol ... That's the beauty of OpenSource.
Erik
BTW. Congratulations with the agreement between University of Delft and Airbus!
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