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The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software is Unsustainable (trstringer.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Five@slrpnk.net to c/foss@beehaw.org

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[–] Sinfaen@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is the unfortunate truth. Mathworks tools are heavily used in the engineering space, so it's an obvious choice for academia to teach.

As much as I try to get my company off of Matlab/Simulink, it's a challenge. Just so much legacy already written in it

[–] debanqued@beehaw.org 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

so it’s an obvious choice for academia to teach.

I can’t agree. You could perhaps say Matlab is the default/non-critically-analyzed choice for academia. GNU Octave uses the same language as Matlab. A student who masters GNU Octave will be able to use Matlab just fine.

IIRC, Matlab’s significant difference is Simulink. So if a class actually intends to cover Simulink then it’d perhaps be fair enough for just that class to use Matlab. But even that’s not ideal. Ideal would be the school paying students to add what’s needed in GNU Octave.