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Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

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Re: Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

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Post by vmarsy »

dhuramas wrote: post #2

If you think GNU Octave has made a difference in your life or other's, please take a moment to continue funding his efforts. http://jweaton.org/?page_id=48

you can also donate via the Free software foundation, I'm not sure what the author prefers, but the FSF donation can most likely be matched 100% if your company participates in a matching program.

Hopefully, adding a "for 'GNU Octave' project" note should be enough.

Re: Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

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Post by iamed2 »

mooreds wrote: post #4

For those of us not in the know, GNU Octave is, according to Wikipedia, "software featuring a high-level programming language, primarily intended for numerical computations."

More specifically, it's designed to support as much as possible of MATLAB's syntax to provide an open-source alternative to MATLAB.

Re: Looking for Work After 25 Years of Octave

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Post by petercooper »

At the risk of comparing apples to boulder sized oranges, it's a shame considering Wolfram supports hundreds of employees off of Mathematica alone (something that wows my mind - in a good way - every time I'm reminded of it). I hope this drive works but also the long term prospects.
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