Does anybody know where to get analytical/academic software? (self.piracy)

submitted 1 year ago by Lowruler to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I thought my university provided a copy of Mnova, but they didn't. Are there repositories for this kind of software.

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[-] Staple_Diet@aussie.zone 28 points 1 year ago

Generally there are free trials or FOSS alternatives for most academic programs because academics are stingey af.

Cursory search showed Spin Works might suit your needs.

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago

Well, and also because journal publication incentivizes using FOSS for reproducibility

[-] Staple_Diet@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was being a bit flippant but it's true that FOSS is more compatible with open science. To be honest nothing I use anymore is paid. My testing software, analysis software and modelling software is all FOSS and developed by Academics in my area and I honestly don't see an advantage to paid versions. Shit, we even use Inkscape to edit figures.

[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 year ago

rutracker has mnova, 32bit windows version differs by only 2 octets from original iirc so it has to be clean

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[-] seaturtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

I've seen stuff like ArcGIS on torrent sites the last time I checked. Dunno about Mnova.

Sidenote: their licenses are crazy complicated. I really wish there were just FOSS alternatives to everything. I know there's QGIS/GRASS GIS for ArcGIS, R for S (or is it the other way around? I forgot), MuseScore for Sibelius/Finale/etc., and so on. And also LibreOffice for MS Office of course. But I think some academic/professional software is just so niche and/or has institutional players (like companies, governments, and universities) that are so committed to it that it can be hard to get people to change.