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NASA Launches Open Source Portal

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-your-typical-nasa-launch dept.

sproketboy writes "NASA has launched code.nasa.gov, which will become a portal for NASA's open source software development activities. In its current form, it hosts a directory of the organization's open source software projects and provides documentation about NASA's open source software processes."

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  1. Disappointed by JustAnotherIdiot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought NASA created a worm hole of sorts and was going to open source that.
    This news is much less exciting ):

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  2. Re:Wait... by g0bshiTe · · Score: 4, Funny

    My functions are already out of this world.

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  3. Schematics by TeXMaster · · Score: 1, Funny

    Damn, and here I was, hoping that NASA had had the Portal technology for some time and that they were finally releasing the schematics for the Portal gun ...

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  4. Cave Johnson must be furious by pezpunk · · Score: 4, Funny

    first Black Mesa steals all his contracts, now NASA open-sources his IP.

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