![]() Tilman Benkert (a former scientist now working as a software developer in Stuttgart) joined QtiPlot development after having to use Origin for his PhD thesis and publications due to a lack of a comparable free software alternative. Alexander wants SciDAVis and LabPlot to be “the plotting application the Linux users thinks of first”. ![]() Stefan describes LabPlot as a free KDE data analysis and visualization program that “tries to combine most of the features needed for advanced data analysis and high-quality plots under a user friendly GUI”. So, he joined the project: “I contacted Stefan and offered my help. LabPlot, though not everything he wanted, “had the biggest potential”. He'd previously used Grace, but “was never happy and comfortable with this motif-based piece of software”. Alexander Semke (working in theoretical hadron physics at GSI in Darmstadt) joined the LabPlot project in 2008. Stefan has another claim to fame in starting the liborigin project, a library used to import projects from the proprietary Origin program. In 2006 he realized it “was time to take the next step to really open up the project” and started working on the KDE 4 LabPlot 2. ![]() LabPlot was started back in 2001 by Stefan Gerlach (a scientist, lecturer and IT administrator in the department of theoretical physics at the University of Konstanz) because he “needed a good plotting program and couldn't find any”. If you'd like to see exactly what they said then read the full interview. The core developers we interviewed were extremely helpful in replying to a long list of questions we sent them in great detail and the following is a heavily edited summary of their responses.
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