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NASA Goes SourceForge

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hey-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

refactorator writes "We have a lift-off! The NASA Ames Research Center has open sourced Java PathFinder , a JVM that is an explicit state software model checker, all written in Java. For the first time, the complete master development site of a live NASA software engineering project is hosted on SourceForge. Read the official press release for details. The team around John Penix, Willem Visser, and Peter Mehlitz fought long and hard to get the development hosted outside of NASA, to enable true collaborative software development. Now show the government that it works - join the fray. May Java PathFinder boldly go where no NASA program has gone before." (Both Slashdot and SourceForge are part of VA Software.)

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  1. Re:commercial use of government software by Swanktastic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Before you say "corporations pay taxes too", let me remind you that corporate tax share has gone from about 50% in the 1950's, to about 2% today. Yep- the individual foots 98% of the government budget, but corporations get all the laws.

    Those damn corporations! Stealing all our money and hiding it away in their secret corporation vaults deep under the surface of the earth!

    I'm not sure what you think a corporation is other than a piece of paper and a bunch of people working together. Someone owns that corporation's debt and equity, either directly through stock or indirectly through some sort of account (savings, IRA, 401(k), whatever), and that person is paying taxes on the income they receive from that ownership.

  2. Uh-huh. by Grendel+Drago · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... and that person is paying taxes on the income they receive from that ownership.

    Yeah, right. Tell me another. Do you know how far the tax rate of the wealthiest has fallen since 1950? Not to mention offshore tax shelters, loopholes and associated bullshit.

    --grendel drago

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    1. Re:Uh-huh. by PaxTech · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      Yeah, right. Tell me another. Do you know how far the tax rate of the wealthiest has fallen since 1950? Not to mention offshore tax shelters, loopholes and associated bullshit.

      Actually, no I don't know how much the tax rate on the rich has fallen since 1950. But I can tell you how much it's RISEN since 1979. Get your facts straight dude. I 1979 the richest .1% paid just over 5% of the tax revenue collected. Now they pay almost 10%.

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  3. Re:commercial use of government software by killjoe · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    "Besides, the rich pay a higher share of taxes now [typepad.com] than they did in 1979."

    The rich also own more wealth then they did in 1979. Since the op 5% of the rich control 95% of the wealth they should pay 95% of the taxes too.

    The rich are getting a great deal. The income disparity grows, the rich get richer but their tax burden does not increase as fast as their wealth.

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