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NASA Report Advocates Switch to Open Source

Posted by michael on from the don't-have-to-be-a-rocket-scientist dept.

vortimax writes "A new technical report from the NASA Ames Research Center advocates the adoption of Open Source Software internally by NASA for some projects. The paper also proposes modifications to NASA's "external software release" policies to allow OSS and proposes the use of the Mozilla Public License as the license of choice for NASA software."

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  1. Re:International Collaboration by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Are you really that stupid? Do you really envision NASA saying "Hey everybody, lets get together with some pizza and beer and hammer out some shuttle code"

    You really are not that stupid, are you?