On Friday, October 23, 2015 at 3:06:13 PM UTC+2, Patrick O'Leary wrote: > > On Friday, October 23, 2015 at 6:18:43 AM UTC-5, Kris De Meyer wrote: >> >> ...and then the only thing Julia will have going for it is that it's >> free. But my cost to my employers is such that if I lose as little as 3 >> days a year on compatibility issues, they would be better off paying for a >> Matlab license... >> > > > But if something broke in Julia, there's a chance I can fix it. Free > software matters. > > Well, you can. But the average julia USER is not in the same position. Fixing something in packages needs some background in development of the package and fixing something in julia itself needs even more background.
In any case, i prefer Open Source because there's even the possibility to look inside and see how the magic is happening. But the argument, 'you can help yourself' is not equal to 'you are able to help yourself'.
