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:Secret? by CFN · 2002-05-15 12:06 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Dude, you are making a logical fallacy.

If A implies B (ie. if something is secret then it is proprietary) does not mean B implies A (if it is proprietary then it is secret). It also does not mean ~A imples ~B (if it is not secret then it is not proprietary).

Secrecy has nothing to do with proprietaryness: the whole point of the patent system is to have proprietary techniques open for all to read.