Why NASA uses Open Source

Courtesy Linux Today  Wed, 07/21/2010 - 04:39

Netstat -vat: "With Billions of dollars and massive technology needs that are literally out-of-this-world, NASA has a lot of unique computing requirements.

As it turns out, some of those requirements can be fulfilled by technology that isn't all that different from what regular enterprises need too."

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