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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. Goddamn DVD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Can anyone tell me where I can find a region 2 DVD codec for WinXP?

    All the fucking codecs on gnutella are region 1 versions...

  2. Thanks for the laugh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I can't find that story on Slashdot though, but it sounds like it should be somewhere...

    Oh well, never mind.