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

[Petter Wingren]

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:16 AM, sai kiran <saikiran.bonthu at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>

The transparence of how data is calculated,limitless customisation options
and the price are the main advantages of opensource imo.

Personally I'm using scilab to make a prototype of my project before we
port it to python and c-applications.
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