On Friday, October 23, 2015 at 10:11:16 AM UTC-5, Andreas Lobinger wrote: > > > 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'. >
I didn't intend for the word "chance" to be read as anything other than "nonzero probability."
