Why do you prefer to work with Maxima?



>>>>> "Volker" == Volker van Nek <volkervannek at gmail.com> writes:

    Volker> The topic of differential equations is only one among a lot of
    Volker> interesting mathematical topics. So I would like to answer a little
    Volker> bit more in general.

    Volker> I work with Maxima because it is powerful and released under the GNU
    Volker> GPL. Other software like Matlab or Maple which does not fulfill these
    Volker> two conditions is from my point of view completely useless. In the

What about Octave, the matlab clone?  I'm just curious, since it is
clearly GPL.  Is it not powerful enough?  Or is it because it doesn't
do symbolic math?

Ray