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Jul 24
2009
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NASA using open source applicationsPosted by: jerome.heuze in Personal Tagged in: open source , NASA
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Brief:
NASA indicates several purposes for making its software open source:
- To increase NASA software quality via community peer review.
- To accelerate software development via community contributions.
- To maximize the awareness and impact of NASA research.
- To increase dissemination of NASA software in support of NASA's education mission.
This is a great news that Nasa will be using open source for their software used for shuttle systems and other AI used around the ship to assist their resident. If Nasa will be doing its own updates then the core of the application should become GPL or GNU so that other space agencies could re-use the same code. This way a global collaboration will be beneficial to all space programs thus reducing the cost of development.
This is a big step for Open Source and huge leap for the movement of freedom licensing! :)
Let's forward into the future - future Linux application will be running the latest space ships systems, navigation, shuttle systems, life support, etc. Imagine the interface looking like gnome!
NASA takes open source into space
Matt Asay - July 22, 2009 - http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10292950-16.html
