Government Funds Secret Sustainable Computing

Posted by Hemos on Wednesday May 15, 2002 @11:32AM from the getting-the-money-in dept.

SEWilco writes "OSDN's NewsForge reports that Carnegie Mellon University has started a Sustainable Computing Consortium to improve the quality and security of software. The only news release is that NASA gave CMU $23 million to help create dependable software. SCC members get an internal-use license for SCC software. So taxpayers are paying millions to create proprietary software, and companies get access for a few thousand dollars. (There is some blurring between CMU's SCC and CMU's High Dependability Computing Consortium, although HDCC's web site has been idle for a year.)"

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Re:Free the software by Geekboy(Wizard) · 2002-05-15 11:46 · Score: 3, Funny

Only in Peru, my friend, only in Peru.
So what happens when... by csguy314 · 2002-05-15 12:04 · Score: 5, Funny

stuff from the FSF is still around in a few decades, and their stuff has been completely rewritten 100 times?
Maybe then they'll realize what sustainable means...
nahh....

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Re:Secret? by cpeterso · 2002-05-15 12:14 · Score: 3, Funny

Forget "closed source". Now we have evil "secret source" software!

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