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I wasn't aware of the GNU Octave project until I saw a post on Reddit that it had hit version 4.0.0. If you're not familiar with it either, here's a brief overview:
GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations. It provides capabilities for the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments. It also provides extensive graphics capabilities for data visualization and manipulation.
So why is this exciting? Aside from a Windows installer for all you people too lazy to switch to GNU/Linux, it apparently finally got a GUI (kind of a must for "modern" software):
Octave 4.0 is a major new release with many new features, including a graphical user interface, support for classdef object-oriented programming, better compatibility with Matlab, and many new and improved functions.
You can also get the full list of user-visible changes here.
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(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday June 01 2015, @09:01PM
not open source. It's not about the choice of license but why the license was chosen.
Go find the thread where linus gets into it with someone who referred to linux as free software.
However some "GNU" projects aren't really backed by the Free Software Foundation; in those cases they might be open source rather than free software.
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(Score: 3, Touché) by maxwell demon on Monday June 01 2015, @10:10PM
Given that its homepage is on www.gnu.org, it should indeed be part of the GNU project.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday June 01 2015, @10:16PM
Consider Richard's gripe that Gnutella is not only not free software, but completely proprietary in that the source is not available.
Sourceforge was effective at discouraging that by not permitting projects to use "gnu" in their name unless they were really part of the GNU Project.
There is also the GNU and Non-GNU sections of that sourceforge clone the FSF operates, whose name escapes me just now.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @01:25AM
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 02 2015, @12:44PM
But I strongly doubt that there was ever a false "GNU" project hosted on www.gnu.org.