NASA embraces Microsoft format -- but adds an open-source twist
May 28, 2009, 14:33 (0 Talkback[s])
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"But the U.S. space agency also plans to publicly release, as
open-source software, the tools it's developing to make the
conversion.
"That technological balancing act is among the details revealed
in a federal Space Act Agreement establishing the terms of a
collaboration announced by NASA and Microsoft earlier this year.
The text of the agreement wasn't disclosed at the time, but NASA
has now released the documents in response to a request made by
TechFlash under the federal Freedom of Information Act."
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