From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Apr 30 16:21:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA10970 for freebsd-emulation-outgoing; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:21:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from helmholtz.salk.edu (helmholtz.salk.edu [198.202.70.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA10956 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:21:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bartol@salk.edu) Received: from cole.salk.edu (cole [198.202.70.113]) by helmholtz.salk.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA24407; Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 16:21:27 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Bartol To: Bootsrapa Limanond cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Suttipan Limanond , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: matlab for linux and freebsd In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 30 Apr 1998, Bootsrapa Limanond wrote: > > This sounds great. If you need any help on that, please let me know ... > > On the other note, I just received matlab's pricing this morning. The > MATLAB and SIMULINK's pricing seems like something I can swallow (~$500 > each for > educational license). But, boy ..., a toolbox is priced at $199 each ... > (At first, > I didn't believe my eyes and had to write back to them to confirm). How > is it possible that a toolbox which is nothing but a collection > of M-files cost more than a C compiler? And Hey, don't forget that's the just the price for the first year!!! You have to pay a renewal fee EVERY year... If you don't then when the license expires the software dies until you renew (this is what I was referring to when I mentioned "tyrannical licensing requirements"). Matlab -- the software you lease with an option to... lease again, of course, what else! > > Did someone mention Scilab and another package? Is there a URL that I can > get some info on these software? > Both SciLab and Octave are in the ports collection. They're both quite nice! If you can possibly do without Matlab then, please, do yourself a favor! > Thank you very much, > > Suttipan Limanond. > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message