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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 6:16 AM, sai kiran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:saikiran.bonthu@gmail.com">saikiran.bonthu@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi Scilab,
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<div>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.</div>
<div>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.</div>
<div>So please could u guys tell me, what are other major advantages of scilab over matlab.</div></blockquote>
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<div>The transparence of how data is calculated,limitless customisation options and the price are the main advantages of opensource imo.</div>
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<div>Personally I'm using scilab to make a prototype of my project before we port it to python and c-applications.</div></div>