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NASA Launches Open Source Portal

Posted by Soulskill on Friday January 6, 2012 @07:59AM 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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Disappointed by JustAnotherIdiot · 2012-01-06 08:00 · 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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Re:Wait... by g0bshiTe · 2012-01-06 08:04 · Score: 4, Funny

My functions are already out of this world.

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Cave Johnson must be furious by pezpunk · 2012-01-06 08:47 · Score: 4, Funny

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

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Modern VCS by l0b0 · 2012-01-06 09:10 · Score: 3, Insightful

GitHub repos? Looks like somebody over there has a clue.