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   niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Dec-2022 17:26:33 JST niconiconi

   Great that Matlab has a free-trial Web edition now. No need to waste my time downloading something I've never used before and will never use again just for verifying a single calculation. BTW, if you save an image on Web Matlab, it shows in the file menu, but if you click the file immediately, you get "image not found"... Quality software. :woozy_baa:

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Dec-2022 17:26:30 JST 翠星石

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     @niconiconi >Gladly using proprietary malware just because of a slight inconvenience.
     
     GNU Octave is intended to be 100% compatible - anything unimplemented should be reported as a bug.
     
     I've had no problems with GNU Octave - I had to add additional packages for certain required imaging libraries and it just werked 100%.
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     niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Dec-2022 17:26:31 JST niconiconi

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     • avalos

     @avalos@mstdn.social It's mostly compatible. But this time the only function I need for my calculation just happens to be "unimplemented" in Octave.

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     avalos@mstdn.social's status on Wednesday, 07-Dec-2022 17:26:32 JST avalos

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     @niconiconi If you're not using any advanced MATLAB features, you can use GNU Octave instead! It's supposed to be compatible.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Dec-2022 19:02:12 JST 翠星石

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     @niconiconi >BTW, many years ago I remember reading an article on either fsf, gnu, or stallman.org, and near the end, it says "the only acceptable use of proprietary software is for the purpose of reverse engineering and getting rid of it."
     I can't find the articles at the moment, but it is indeed noted that the only time you should ever use proprietary software is to get rid of it.
     
     >I was using Matlab exactly because I was trying to understand the behavior of its proprietary implementation of an algorithm.
     If you really intend to replace such proprietary thing, great, carry on.
     
     I made the assumption that someone undertaking difficult reverse engineering wouldn't refer to the proprietary thing as "Great" - what I read is that you were using the software because it was convenient to do so (once, but still) and I didn't see anything about reverse engineering.
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     niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Dec-2022 19:02:14 JST niconiconi

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com This is not a "slight inconvenience" but an interoperability / correctness problem. I was using Matlab exactly because I was trying to understand the behavior of its proprietary implementation of an algorithm. Once it's fully understood, it would then be possible to replace it. I'm "glad" in the sense that I don't need to waste extra time on it.
     
     BTW, many years ago I remember reading an article on either fsf, gnu, or stallman.org, and near the end, it says "the only acceptable use of proprietary software is for the purpose of reverse engineering and getting rid of it." I can't find it anymore, I challenge you to find its URL.