NASA Prepares to Open Source Code 330
comforteagle writes "According to this story at O'Reilly, NASA is looking for approval for their own open source license. The NASA submitter (lawyer of course) states that none of the current licenses meet their needs, but more interesting is that NASA needs a license at all. It makes one wonder what we, and other space agencies, might see coming out off NASA. It's also nice to see code that taxpayers paid for anyway being released for their use too. There must be at least one slashdotter who could dream up a use for NASA software. X Prize participants maybe?"
NASA, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Absolutely (Score:0, Funny)
Do it now! (Score:5, Funny)
RE: NASA Prepares to Open Source Code (Score:5, Funny)
NASA'Sdoom (Score:2, Funny)
Sweet! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:NASA, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
"We?" (Score:3, Funny)
Is this guy referring to Slashdot?
Maybe now... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Sweet! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Absolutely (Score:5, Funny)
Home NASA project? (Score:5, Funny)
Darwin Award, maybe?
When's it coming out? (Score:5, Funny)
Nasa Home Project.. :-) (Score:3, Funny)
no more dog poop on the lawn
Sweet! (Score:5, Funny)
Good imaging software (Score:5, Funny)
I know who has a use.. (Score:2, Funny)
loopholes (Score:3, Funny)
Can't wait. (Score:3, Funny)
30 years from now, Man finally lands on Mars, and finds one of the 2010 batch of rovers, and, spelled out in its tire tracks...
"FIRST POST!"
Re:Government Copyright (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Absolutely (Score:5, Funny)
void mars_lander()
{
int dist;
dist = to_ground(position,z);
* let's see what happens when we comment the
* conversion!
*
/
land(dist);
}
Re:NASA, eh? (Score:5, Funny)
It's all fine and dandy... (Score:2, Funny)
"Sir, we seem to have lost control of the rovers"
"Lost contact man, what do you mean?"
"Well sir, it's like we can look but we can't touch!"
"And what do you see?"
"It's hard to tell at this point, but first the rovers appeared to play a game of pong with a mars rock, and now they appear to be writing "Chris loves Jane" in the dust, with letters large enough to be viewed by a common telescope."
"It's those da*mn blinkenlights people..."
Re:National Security (Score:3, Funny)
Yes.
Re:Absolutely (Score:4, Funny)
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satillite hacking (Score:1, Funny)
(ok its java yeah yeah yeah)
Re:NASA should NOT waste their time (Score:1, Funny)
Maybe you would receive a warmer reception if you weren't wearing that bright Hawaiian shirt with a Panama hat dressed with a Bush Cheney '04 button.
=)