Why is Matlab described as closed source if you can read the source? Is closed just referring to the compiled C code — or something deeper?https://twitter.com/cMadan/status/841944151755264000 …
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Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ Retweeted Chris Madan 🐘 🧠 💻
Why is Matlab described as closed source if you can read the source? Is closed just referring to the compiled C code — or something deeper?https://twitter.com/cMadan/status/841944151755264000 …
Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ added,
not all code is readable like this. Also, even though you can read some code, the license does not allow you to change/reuse it.
@cMadan this is an important point actually — so you mean it's usually spaghetti?
no, I mean MATLAB does not allow you to read it. Happens on a lot of the toolboxes.
aha so I guess mostly the code is hidden then and not visible like above...
...I haven't had that issue, but I also haven't been thorough in testing which functions are viewable
Even if you can read it, that is only useful for auditing the code, since the license doesn't allow you do do anything else
I'm not even entirely sure how you could debug it then...
MATLAB 2012 had a bug where it would allocate memory and never free it when you passed matrix slices as function arguments
since one has absolutely no access to how memory is allocated, I discovered this bug empirically :p it was fixed eventually
people seem to think on this thread that sci matlab use is more unethical than ethical hahah http://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/80790/is-it-ethical-to-use-proprietary-closed-source-software-for-scientific-computa …
...that's not my interpretation of that page, but, I also don't really want to sit and defend the use of sci matlab
are trade-offs vs. using other options (such as Python and R), matter of perspective to see how tradeoffs weigh out
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