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The Windows binaries are partially due to commercial sponsorship.

What does that mean? Commercial companies paid to have the installers built for their use and are sharing, or you bundle adware in with the installers and call it sponsorship?



It means someone hired one of the developers in order to make the Windows binaries. He ended up forking MXE in order to accomplish this:

http://hg.octave.org/mxe-octave/file/default

There is no crapware anywhere. This is all GPL'ed, all GNU, all good for you. Commercial sponsorship does not mean we're out to screw you over. Quite the contrary, we're seeking commercial sponsorship in accordance with free software principles and to make Octave better for everyone.




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