Does anyone know what the typical subscription costs for Matlab are for a university? I bet a refreshing beverage of your choice that for a (small-ish) fraction of that you could run your own @mybinderteam at your university. Just sayin'
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They were horrific, in the 100s of thousands of pounds per year last time I looked (3+ years ago), but it's handled by central purchasing now and we don't see that at all.
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It's one of the ways they get away with it, right? Universities buy site licenses centrally and so it "costs" the research group using it "nothing"(i) (i) Not actually nothing as central costs are top-sliced from grants.
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It's analogous to the costs of paying for journals.
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Maybe the path to sustainability for
@mybinderteam is to hire a sales person who goes around universities closing deals with the central purchasing people. For extra credibility and realism we don't tell anyone it is open-source and make them sign a NDA ;)5 replies 3 retweets 11 likes
*coughs profusely*
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