which is why it's anti-competitive for a company to sponsor university courses (such as providing educational versions for free). It should be disallowed, unless the course is _specifically_ teaching the software, rather than a general course.
Anti-competitive means others are not allowed to do the same.
it's usually the case where the sponsor is the sole sponsors (aka, the course does not teach both X and Y, esp. if X is given to the uni for free).
It's anti-competitive to allow companies to embed themselves in general courses, despite it not being so by the letter of the laws.
As long as the companies behind X and Y both have a fair shot at sponsorship, this isn't really anti-competitive. It's literally a competition in which the companies compete for student and faculty attention.
Anti-competitive would be a company saying "you must teach X and not Y in your class about Z because you use Xco's mail services" or some other such abuse of one contractual relationship for an unrelated gain.
A competitor can complete for that sponsorship. So long as it's done on direct merit of the value, there's no problem.
Anti-competitive would be providing products or services and forcibly leveraging that into an unrelated contract.
One of our machine learning courses was taught in Matlab.
Unsurprisingly, nobody used Matlab after uni, or 5 years later.
It isn't particularly fast though, and the simplicity quickly becomes an obstacle when solving a real problem.
It’s a great language choice for it
It weeded out the script kiddies who incorrectly signed up wanting a Tensorflow or PyTorch course
It’s a fairly bland and slow but usable language for the task
Shits me off to no end a lot of engineering courses moreorless indoctrinate their students into using it unconditionally, though
Octave exists but is a relative pain to use