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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."

3 of 263 comments (clear)

  1. Coincidence? by f97tosc · · Score: 0, Troll

    Remember the article yesterday.

    Tor

  2. What took NASA so long to get this far ... by Katalyzt · · Score: 0, Troll

    .. maybe it's all that highly customised flight software, after all how many people have got spacecraft they need to control.

    given their resources NASA can make a great contribution to the open source world as they transform away from a government agency.

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  3. open source, but the story is PDF by Cheeze · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why use a closed source media such as PDF when the article is about using open source software?

    wouldn't html be much easier and faster (less bandwidth) than using a PDF?

    just doesn't make sense.

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