Rocket scientist: Outer space exploration should be open
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| Before 2005, Wooster didn't even know what Linux was, let alone open source
| software, but during his recent tenure as a research scientist at MIT, the
| concepts "gradually worked their way into my consciousness," he says. "The
| thing that struck me was I noticed there were a lot of people who were very
| motivated about space -- computer programmers, car designers, and even just
| high school kids. I realized that the open source model is a good way of
| contributing to it."
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http://www.linux.com/feature/118137
Related:
NASA tests Linux for spacecraft control
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| On the software side, embedded Linux vendor Wind River says it was selected
| to "support the development of NASA's New Millennium Program Space Technology
| 8 (ST8) Dependable Multiprocessor." As part of its role in supporting the
| project, the company will supply its Platform for Network Equipment, Linux
| Edition (PNE-LE) for use on the DM system.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5714800202.html
DOD SoftwareTechNews Open Source - The future is open
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| OSS use in U.S. government is pervasive.
| ----Including the Linux kernel, Samba, Apache, Perl, GCC, GNAT,
| XFree86, OpenSSH, bind, and sendmail.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/06/dod_softwaretec.html
Open-Source Software and Its Role in Space Exploration
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| FOSS explores our Solar System. We send robots to the moon, Mars
| and beyond to flyby, orbit or land. FOSS goes with them, pervasive
| in the real-time operating systems, math libraries and file systems.
| Consider the robotic decisions of where to rove, and realize the power
| given the human race by the Free Software Foundation's (FSF)
| compilers, libraries, build scripts and so on.
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http://www.cio.com/article/111950/Open_Source_Software_and_its_Role_in_Space_Exploration
http://tinyurl.com/2kcyvw
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