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JPL Begins Commercialization

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the buy-yourself-a-piece-of-space-tech dept.

An anonymous reader writes "JPL has always been concerned with how their work has benefitted society and the Earth as a whole. Everything from developing tools to study what causes El Nino/La Nina to helping find sources of pollution in our environment. In an effort to continue their work while decreasing their burden on NASA's budget, JPL will introduce the JPL Commercialization Center. This means they will begin developing relationships with commercial entities to adapt their technologies for public use. The public benefit is two-fold since licensing fees will help ease NASA and taxpayer burden and life-enchancing technologies will be put into public use."

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  1. JPL isn't GPL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    so why would the average slashdot reader care?

  2. So... by CableModemSniper · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's the IPO on JPL look like? ;)

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    1. Re:So... by jchawk · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well they have their business plan scribled down on a napkin, and they've got 50 programmers in the office ready to code something, and they seem just as good as all the other dot-coms out there that's stock is through the roof, oh wait wait wait, they have linux written on the napkin, this just has to be a winner!!!

      Oh wait. . . It's not 1998 anymore?

  3. Life Enchancing technologies by JudasBlue · · Score: 3, Funny
    The public benefit is two-fold since licensing fees will help ease NASA and taxpayer burden and life-enchancing technologies will be put into public use.


    I hadn't realized that the JPL was doing weapons research.


    Actually, I normally don't cop on spelling errors, since I am not the world's best speller, but I really like this new term and think I shall use it frequently:


    Don't disturb Phil while he is in deep hack mode, it is life-enchancing.

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  4. Since when... by tarth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Since when is Tang a life-enhancing product?

    I swear if I develop cancer it's the Tang's fault.

  5. Obligatory That 70s Show Reference... by Cyno01 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Kelso: " Man, chicks must love astronauts, it says here they get all the tang they want"

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  6. JPL! by Have+Blue · · Score: 3, Funny

    So now do we start demanding that all our software be JPLed?

  7. Remember this funny picture? by Squeezer · · Score: 2, Funny

    The new commerialized version of NASA: Shuttle_vp.jpg

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