{"id":5391,"date":"2014-03-11T13:58:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T12:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5391"},"modified":"2014-03-11T16:33:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T15:33:55","slug":"matlab-home-edition-launched","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5391","title":{"rendered":"MATLAB Home Edition launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to use MATLAB to develop personal projects or as a hobby but have been put off by the eye-watering commercial prices, the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathworks.co.uk\/products\/matlab-home\/\">MATLAB Home<\/a> edition might be for you.<\/p>\n<p>For \u00a385 you get full powered MATLAB without any toolboxes. This is the same version that the professionals use but there are various restrictions on its use. The FAQ states <em>&#8220;The MATLAB\u00ae Home license is for your personal use only. It is not available for government, academic, research, commercial, or other organizational use.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It is possible to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.co.uk\/store\/link\/products\/home\/\">buy toolboxes for an extra \u00a325 each<\/a>\u00a0but, at the time of writing at least, it is not possible to buy ALL available toolboxes on the home license.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Mathworks&#8217; competitors have had similar home-use licenses available for some time &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolfram.com\/mathematica-home-edition\/\">Mathematica<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maplesoft.com\/products\/Maple\/personal_edition\/\">Maple<\/a> to name two &#8211; it&#8217;s great to see MATLAB added to this list.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other WalkingRandomly posts you may be interested in<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkingrandomly.com\/?p=5336\">Octave 3.8 has been released and it has a GUI<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wanted to use MATLAB to develop personal projects or as a hobby but have been put off by the eye-watering commercial prices, the new MATLAB Home edition might be for you. For \u00a385 you get full powered MATLAB without any toolboxes. This is the same version that the professionals use but there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math-software","category-matlab"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3swhs-1oX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5396,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions\/5396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walkingrandomly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}