[scilab-Users] what is the advantage of scilab compared to matlab

[Antoine Monmayrant]

Le 10/11/2011 06:16, sai kiran a écrit :
> 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
>
Well in terms of quality/price ratio, scilab beats matlab easily ;-) !

Antoine