Well, if you want to use Matlab, someone needs to maintain the system on which it is to be used, so there's a fair point in this discussion. If you have, then this entire discussion is preaching to the choir. You either have put the time and effort into OS to make those payments redundant, or you have not. And that is a major factor when it comes to paying for commercial licenses. You still need to know what you're doing, well enough, broadly enough, to make your time and effort profitable, no matter what platform you work on and what tools you work with. This is where the "you" in "there's a lot that you can do in OS for free" comes into play. With OS you have got to build a support environment or find one to install and hope that it works properly. Does that mean that you can just sit down in front of it and start to write Python and C++ code.if you don't know anything about either one? You could on the other hand sit down in front of a Windows machine and run Excel and write VBA and get a lot more done a lot more quickly with little to no knowledge of programming at all, starting with scripting GUI actions, because the support environment is there and well-developed. What I do see is relevant is the fact that in 2022 you can certainy install Linux (I use Ubuntu) for absolutely free onto an x86/64 platform and have it up and running inside an hour with Python and C++ on it. And if I ever had a business case where I required it for business, I'd pay for the full license if it were using it in that capacity. If you can rub a couple hundred bucks together for a home license, I'd do that (and I did). If you are hell-bent on saving every nickel- use Octave. They do a great job and the support is fantastic. (and a few more fifties for some other toolboxes I found helpful) I can't justify NOT spending $200+ to save many weeks work. However, for the $150 home license (glad they finally added this option!), and the $50 for the NN toolbox. The home grown may have been tailor-made and "better" in some respects. Here's how: I was intent on developing my own home-grown toolbox(es) to do a specific task (neural network functions with specific interfaces to play around with.) It would have taken me a month to do this on my own on Octave given my schedule. However the business case for Matlab got me to finally fork over the $$$ even though it does the same basic functionality. I was using Octave for a while- and it's pretty good. It's very similar, albeit not as supported, and you get the source code to compile and use as your heart desires. If you think it is expensive, try out an open-source version. ![]() At some level it's also a battle between Matlabs license security and integrity and hackers who want to free Matlab code to be run at will. Of course a market will develop to disable that control, but that's par for the course. That information might be as valuable as the software itself. ![]() This is a problem with the entire software market: it is crucial for developers to be able to control who runs their software but by the same token they need information to decide who should be able to run their software. But by the same token so is adding value to the product that is commensurate with the price. I don't see the wisdom in trying to control or even influence the Matlab market through the licensing of product versions that are technically the same, that's like asking the market to violate those licenses. That's exactly how it should be, in my opinion. Those toolkits are worthless, supposedly, without Matlab. Customers pay to leverage their investment in the basic Matlab product, those toolkits have a real-world market value that should fluctuate together with their price. This is why I love the current Matlab model of toolkits and add-ons for an additional price. That's like the directors at Bugatti saying "hm, maybe we should sell a $5k version of the Chiron, or at the very least find some maker of cheap aftermarket parts for expensive cars and collaborate with them". The question is where does Matlab sit in the Mathworks software lineup and why even entertain the interests of users (who may or may not be legitimate) to make Matlab more compatible with OS tools. Even Microsoft knows the wisdom of giving-away products at the low end to generate revenue at the high end. It's not like there is not a market for "expensive" software products. ![]() Bugatti is the "boutique" label for Volkswagen. Bugatti develops, makes and sells vehicles which are based on high prices and a market of owners who are happy to buy their products.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |