Re: "Why Octave"

[Sergei Steshenko]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Ben Abbott <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: "address@hidden Help" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 4:30 AM
> Subject: Re: "Why Octave"
> 
> On Feb 2, 2013, at 8:37 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> 
>>  I am Taban,
>> 
>>  Ben, i am a Electronics engineering student and i am studying on image 
> proccessing for my project. I researched something about comparing matlab and 
> octave. So appereantly matlab is faster, have much more toolboxes, well 
> documented etc. But it is expensive. I am a software developer also, and i 
> like 
> free software philosophy. I want to use Octave.
>> 
>>  So can you give me a leg to stand on, give me a few reason can be answer to 
> question that "Why Octave?" or Why are you using Octave instead of 
> Matlab ?
>> 
>>  Thanks
> 
> I''ve cc'd the help list for Octave.  You'll likely get a lot of 
> opinions for why others use Octave.
> 
> I use Octave because I enjoy contributing to its development and its GNU 
> license 
> ensures I'll be able to continue.   I also favor the comfort of knowing that 
> my use of Octave isn't contingent on a financial obligation.
> 
> Even so, I am also a Matlab user (for work).
> 
> Ben
> 


Also consider Scilab: http://www.scilab.org/ . I used it before Octave, and 
both tools have their (dis)advantages.

IIRC I'm using Octave since 2007.

Regards,
  Sergei.