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NASA Prepares to Open Source Code
comforteagle writes "According to this story at O'Reilly, NASA is looking for approval for their own open source license. The NASA submitter (lawyer of course) states that none of the current licenses meet their needs, but more interesting is that NASA needs a license at all. It makes one wonder what we, and other space agencies, might see coming out off NASA. It's also nice to see code that taxpayers paid for anyway being released for their use too. There must be at least one slashdotter who could dream up a use for NASA software. X Prize participants maybe?"
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As previously reported here, source code to Microsoft's latest operating system has been stolen.
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As long as the Japanese don't work on it. They should stick with what they know, namely molesting schoolgirls and those weird dancing games
I'll give ya that. :) I just kinda figured that in general that is the "tip" that most people are going to migrate into looking into. I pray for whoever has to manage all the code submissions on this thought ;-) i bet the burnout rate for that job is really high at first...
ah, well said :)
Yes, there is. .. slowly; and being replaced with the comercial shit of Open Source development, which to me sound like the "zen of bussiness", and other productivididizied marketroid shit like that.
I Actually would go a little further than the GPL does, and forbide any use of Software under such license to create, or contribute in any way with propietary code. For example: you wouldn't be abel to use gcc to compile propietary code or GIMP to edit the splash screen; if it were for me,i would even say that someone that writes propietary code can't even use a Free mail client.
I'm not an extremist, i just see many different aproaches to kill Free Software, which are very diferent (and more scary), that the ones seen in the past: Before, They just attacked the comunity directly on the face, now they build busineses arround Free Software, that doesn't sound that bad at the first look, but it's rotting the hole spirit of the GNU Project, the GNU Project is disapearing, there are just left lots of different apps, eachs project on it's own, creating their own fundations, and reciving donations from the ones that are against them through those fundations.
So, the idea of creating the GNU operating System is fading out
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Osama wil be very hapy to get al tihs code!!!! Dont let him haev it!!!!!! He will progrom a viris to make teh tomahack missale hit teh wite howse!!! And then he wil use it to maek his own missel wit PS2s!!
Isn't it great that anything funded by the United States taxpayers becomes available not just to other taxpayers, but to everybody in the world -- including those outside of the United States who view us as the Evil Satan Infidels (TM), or as Fat Greedy Capitalists (TM), or the Stupid American Tourists (TM), or the Ugly Americans (TM), and who would like nothing better than to use our technology against us?
Go to Britain, and you'll see people wearing "I (airplane) NY" t-Shirts. Go to Socialist France, and you'll be spit upon by the unemployed. Go to Canada, and you'll be booed. Opponents will deride us for dropping the a-bomb on Imperialist Japan in the 1940's, but conveniently ignore the modern day Japanese troops that are aiding the coalition in Iraq (thank you, Koizume!).
Back to the topic: I don't know why NASA would waste time open-sourcing their code. That puts an extra and unnecessary layer of stress on their programmers, who need to concentrate on getting the job done, and not necessarily creating code "for all time, for all eyes". In other words, sometimes you have to write a quick and dirty tool for a very specialized one-time piece of equipment. The last thing you need is to have your name in a piece of code that will be reviewed and criticized by Joe Know-It-All-Amatuer-Coder sitting out in the boondocks playing Monday morning quarterback and calling you an idiot on the forums. Open Sourcing the code is a distraction that the budget-and-time constrained NASA can ill afford, especially with the Space Shuttle program in tatters.
The problem is the code written for the Government. Arguably, we should have access to it since we paid for it, but the authors have the copyright. Thus NASA's need for a special written-by-Government-contract-but-licensed-to-the -world license.
Do you want the US to make all those custom NSA & CIA data warehousing programs open source and downloadable by all? Have you ever looked at the CIA computer employment section? They have some really neat tech hidden somewhere. I'd guess that the big boys like IBM already have as much access to it that they need. I on the other hand as an average joe citizen don't need to know about it. They really don't many potential enemies of the US to look at it. Its not my job to worry about who wants to blow up the US. I don't have to worry about searching through Terabytes of Data for leads on things rated Top Secret. I'm happy just being in the country thank you very much.
In a secret government lab, my threat to the US government was just lowered a notch.