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by placeybordeaux 3852 days ago
It's good to see people that have a goal beyond wanting their personal project to succeed, but rather to keep the original reason they started the project at the for front.

Too often large enterprises and projects forget the reason they were started and simply try to keep themselves relevant.

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Well, Octave wasn't started with the goal to take down Matlab. That became a goal later in the project's lifetime as it became clear that users were demanding it.