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Open Source Software For Experimental Physics?

Posted by kdawson on from the open-like-science dept.

jmizrahi writes "I've recently started working in experimental physics. Quite a few programs are used in the lab for assorted purposes — Labview, Igor, Inventor, Eagle, to name just a few. They are all proprietary. This seems to be standard practice, which surprised me. Does anybody know of any open source software intended for scientific research? Does anybody work in a lab that makes an effort to use open source software?"

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  1. Re:Your Reqs Are Too Specific, Try R or Octave by NekoXP · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    He doesn't have to be a Microsoft-loving weenie, he just has to be a Firefox or OO.o user to think that.

    I really thought the whole "if you don't like it then YOU MUST LOVE BILL GATES AND MICRO$UCK!!!!! LOLOLOL" attitude had died away at Slashdot, too, but you seem to be keeping it alive and well. And you've brought back the paranoia that everything that's related to a bad comment about Linux is somehow officially sanctioned and a direct marketing or political ploy engineered by Microsoft itself..

    Congratulations, man.