what is the advantage of scilab compared to matlab

[sai kiran]

Hi Scilab,

Myself Saikiran, a research scholar, IIT Kanpur, India. Last week I
attended an interview. They put up a question that why you shifted to
scilab from matlab.
I simply told them that scilab is open source and matlab is closed source.
They told that is not the right answer and hence i am not selected in the
interview.
So please could u guys tell me, what are other major advantages of scilab
over matlab.

Thanks and Regards,
Saikiran
IIT Kanpur
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