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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 26 points 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

[-] Staple_Diet@aussie.zone 5 points 10 months 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.

[-] TCB13@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago
[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

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

[-] seaturtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months 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.

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