"As pointed out two months ago, Microsoft had hooked up
with NASA to make some pseudo-open source project that denies
access by open source platforms. How ironic is that? Microsoft did
something similar with the Library of Congress [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11], denying public access to information owned by
this very same public, unless they buy from Microsoft. And guess
what? Microsoft paid (as usual) the Library of Congress millions of
dollars to achieve this. It is truly appalling, but to expect the
same from NASA given its track record (see [1-15] at the bottom) is
not easy. NASA continues to shut GNU/Linux users out because of
Microsoft. It's not the first such example (World Wind comes to
mind)."
