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NASA Hosts Its First Open Source Summit (eWeek)
eWeek reports on NASA's Open Source Summit, which was held March 29-30 at Moffett Field in Silicon Valley. Speakers included Google's Chris DiBona, David Wheeler of the Institute for Defense Analysis, Mozilla's Pascal Finette, Bob Sutor of IBM, and Red Hat's Brian Stevens. "NASA's use of open source has been restricted in past years due to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) of the U.S. State Department, which apply directly to aerospace equipment. DiBona argued that these restrictions ought to be eased.
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If NASA's IT group used more open-source software, DiBona said, the help of the community would save time and tax dollars as well as speed up transfer of technology to and from aerospace programs. It also would accelerate NASA's software-procurement practices, he said."
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NASA Hosts Its First Open Source Summit (eWeek) Posted Mar 31, 2011 21:14 UTC (Thu) by andrel (subscriber, #5166) [Link]
Is the David Wheeler mentioned in this article the same dwheeler who regularly comments here at LWN?
NASA Hosts Its First Open Source Summit (eWeek) Posted Mar 31, 2011 21:41 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
Yes indeed. He is involved with Fedora for http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FormalMethods.
NASA Hosts Its First Open Source Summit (eWeek) Posted Apr 1, 2011 1:36 UTC (Fri) by david.a.wheeler (guest, #72896) [Link]
Yes, that's me. My lwn.net account name has recently switched to david.a.wheeler, but it's still me :-).
NASA Hosts Its First Open Source Summit (eWeek) Posted Apr 1, 2011 6:06 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]
Being nosy here, but... why the account switch?
Account switch details Posted Apr 1, 2011 14:22 UTC (Fri) by david.a.wheeler (guest, #72896) [Link]
Actually, I would have preferred to keep using "dwheeler"; I use dwheeler everywhere else I can. However, I needed to change how I paid lwn.net (I switched from a group account to an individual account), and the easy way for lwn.net was to create a new account.
Account switch details Posted Apr 11, 2011 21:07 UTC (Mon) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
I'm sure John would be more than happy to change your account name, he did it for me in no time ;-)
NASA Hosts Its First Open Source Summit (eWeek) Posted Apr 2, 2011 5:06 UTC (Sat) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606) [Link]
This is awesome. With a big name like NASA, something like this will encourage more people to trust an use free software. Even better, more people will see the merit of helping free software projects in various ways rather than buying proprietary softwares.
NASA Hosts Its First Open Source Summit (eWeek) Posted Apr 2, 2011 20:03 UTC (Sat) by donbarry (guest, #10485) [Link]
Yes, but read the comments on that article -- and study NASA's eponymous license offering.
It's "OSI approved" but neither FSF nor DFSG free, another example of a commercial pandering license getting official endorsement from the OSI industrial stooges. It forbids modifications except with code *you* own
It received the usual panegyrics from Russ Nelson on a wikipedia debate page, denouncing the FSF from having any right to say the license was not "free" (he who of course claims the right to dictate "openness" entirely
I see the license as NASA doing industry bidding to attack the GPL, producing public software which cannot interoperate with it.
NASA Hosts Its First Open Source Summit (eWeek) Posted Apr 3, 2011 5:45 UTC (Sun) by Hausvib6 (guest, #70606) [Link]
Wow, thanks for pointing that out to me. Open is just a subset of free, too bad...
NASA Hosts Its First Open Source Summit (eWeek) Posted Apr 3, 2011 1:32 UTC (Sun) by jthill (guest, #56558) [Link] I had no idea that I don't have a single example of "most open source software" on my systems. OS, SOHO, dev tools, games, ... -- seems a guy could live an entire life without even being aware of this "most open-source software" he talks about. I know of lots of freeware bait that isn't oss at all, but I can only call a few examples of supposedly open bait. His definition of "commercial" is farcical.
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