I can't think of anyone better than Noikia and Apple to play the side of proprietary.... Not even Microsoft seems to be able to pull off, well, evil as completely as those two these days.
Nokia isn't all that evil on the open-source frontier. They purchased TrollTech (the company that maintains Qt, a dual open/closed licensed toolkit on which KDE among others is based) in order to use it on their phones. There hasn't been any indication that they are trying to change the license on future releases of Qt, despite their continuing to push DRM'd media.
If they're serious about replacing the shuttle with only a couple years of downtime, they should already be gearing up to test the system as a whole. I'm not personally involved in the project, but it doesn't even look like they're ready to test big pieces yet. Maybe 2020 is a more reasonable date to actually begin flights.
Disclaimer: I'm a NASA employee at Stennis Space Center, programmer not rocket scientist.
The first round of testing on the powerpacks for the new J-2X engines was last month, second round is scheduled for early 2009. That's not the fully assembled engine assemblies, but it's progress.
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It has been confirmed by her campaign and Amy McCorkell, the sender of one of the emails that has been posted.
I can't think of anyone better than Noikia and Apple to play the side of proprietary. ... Not even Microsoft seems to be able to pull off, well, evil as completely as those two these days.
Nokia isn't all that evil on the open-source frontier. They purchased TrollTech (the company that maintains Qt, a dual open/closed licensed toolkit on which KDE among others is based) in order to use it on their phones. There hasn't been any indication that they are trying to change the license on future releases of Qt, despite their continuing to push DRM'd media.
If they're serious about replacing the shuttle with only a couple years of downtime, they should already be gearing up to test the system as a whole. I'm not personally involved in the project, but it doesn't even look like they're ready to test big pieces yet. Maybe 2020 is a more reasonable date to actually begin flights.
Disclaimer: I'm a NASA employee at Stennis Space Center, programmer not rocket scientist. The first round of testing on the powerpacks for the new J-2X engines was last month, second round is scheduled for early 2009. That's not the fully assembled engine assemblies, but it's progress.