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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. SHUT UP OR I'LL KICK YOU IN THE BALLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    1. Re:SHUT UP OR I'LL KICK YOU IN THE BALLS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      hahaha - I was castrated! The jokes on you!

  2. June Carter Cash dead at age 73 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A sad day in country music history with a career that covered more than 60 years she was truly a country music icon, even if you did not appreciate her work you have to acknowledge the impact she had on country music

    http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030516-070 74 6-7297r

    ok it's a troll but so what it's an accurate troll you fucks

  3. Karma to Burn by big_groo · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I like this addition to /. : The next Slashdot story will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush and see it early!

    It lets me know when I have to pay attention for those pI5t Fr05tz posts.

    1. Re:Karma to Burn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      shit! you almost got me to do one of my failure posts again, but then I RTFP'd (Read The Fucking Parent). So, congradualtions on being only a semi-failure.

  4. Oh my god! by Pig+Hogger · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NASA has been subverted! The terrorists have won!!!

  5. Netcraft confirms: Trolling is dying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It is official -- Netcraft is now confirming: Trolling is dying.

    One more crippling bombshell crushed the already beleaguered Slashdot troll community when IDC confirmed that "NASA is obsolete" was one of the weakest, stupidest and most transparent attempts at trolling that has ever been posted to Slashdot. Quality troll content is now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all attempted trolls. Coming on the hells of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that troll quality is nowhere near what it once was, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict trolling's future. Bad trolls flow like a river of blood. Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers. Troll leader Vladinator states that there are 7000 users of TrollTalk. The number of troll versus non-troll posts on TrollTalk is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 1400 Slashdot trolls. Yet very few of them are capable of producing content that is even remotely amusing. This is consistent with the number of TrollTalk posts.

    All major surveys show that trolling has steadily declined in quality. Trolling is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If trolling is to survive at all, it will be among crapflooding kiddies and pear-shaped virgins. Trolling continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, trolling is dead.

    Fact: Trolling is dying

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

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

    --
    - High Tech workers, please say NO to Union Carpenters, their Union sees fit to control our compensation.
  7. TRINITY DIES IN MATRIX RELOADED by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    oh the movie came out yesterday, everyone probably knows already