Re: could matlab-mode be in ELPA or the GNU emacs tree (like auctex and org-mode)?

[dick]

AMS> The goal for the GNU project is to make non-free software irrelevant,
AMS> maybe matlab support could be added in some form to octave-mode

I fail to see how adding matlab support would achieve the goal of making
non-free irrelevant.  Is this some form of the "taste of freedom" argument
which aims to trundle free Trojan horses into non-free dens of iniquity?