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NASA Ames Gets OSI Certified

Posted by timothy on from the you're-paying-for-this-microphone dept.

Lunchy writes "A long standing monument to the growth of research and development in Silicon Valley, the NASA Ames Research Center has done advanced research in the area since 1939. Originally, the center focused on aircraft (and dirigible) research but it is now a high-tech computer science center. The open source community may be interested to know that NASA Ames is now OSI Certified and is releasing some of their software under open source licenses."

3 of 14 comments (clear)

  1. I Nailed some chick that works there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    She was a fat vietnamese chick that did help desk work.

  2. Chinese? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why help them like this? They're just going to turn around and produce incompatible docking ports that can only be licensed from Chinese companies.

  3. Correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Should be "A long standing monument to the growth of research and development in Silicon Valley, the NASA Ames Research Center have done advanced research in the area since 1939. Originally, the center focused on aircraft (and dirigible) research but it are now a high-tech computer science center. The open source community may be interested to know that NASA Ames are now OSI Certified and are releasing some of their software under open source licenses."

    Can you people speak english?