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<DIV>AND--updates are freely available (the open source nature can not be ignored)</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> sai kiran <saikiran.bonthu@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> users@lists.scilab.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wed, November 9, 2011 9:16:08 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [scilab-Users] what is the advantage of scilab compared to matlab<BR></FONT><BR>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>
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<DIV>Thanks and Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Saikiran</DIV>
<DIV>IIT Kanpur</DIV></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>