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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:Asking for trouble.... by ElectricRook · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You actually believe the published results of a government accident report?

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