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Software Glitches Cause Airport Delays in Britain

Posted by michael on from the abort-retry-ignore dept.

bnoise writes "There has been air traffic delays of up to 6 hours today above UK (and this includes north atlantic flights). A BBC News article points out the reasons: a software upgrade. Another article gives more general information about the delays. Companies pin-pointed are IBM (initial development) and Lockheed Martin. If only they were using Open Source Software in the aviation industry... By the way, is there any Open Source project in the aviation sector? A search on Freshmeat gives back 5 projects."

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  1. What would they use? by Joseph+Vigneau · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only they were using Open Source Software in the aviation industry.

    Then they'd have to waste their time arguing the merits of gairport versus kairport...

    Remember kids- "Open Source" apps have glitches, too...

    1. Re:What would they use? by crawling_chaos · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's GNU/Airport dammit! Get it right!

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      You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.
      -- Colonel Adolphus Busch
  2. Open Source by Fizzlewhiff · · Score: 5, Funny

    If only they were using Open Source Software in the aviation industry...

    Yeah, I'd like to see how quickly the Open Source community could fix the problem during the opening weekend of Episode II.

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    'Same speed C but faster'