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[ NNSquad ] NSA Mimics Google, Upsets Senate
NSA Mimics Google, Upsets Senate http://j.mp/NzPkBv (Wired) "The NSA, you see, is just one of many organizations that have open sourced code that seeks to mimic the Google infrastructure. Like other commercial outfits, the agency not only wants to share the database with other government organizations and companies, it aimed to improve the platform by encouraging other developers to contribute code. But when the government's involved, there's often a twist. The U.S. government has a long history with open source software, but there are times when policy and politics bump up against efforts to freely share software code - just as they do in the corporate world. In recent years, the most famous example is NASA's Nebula project, which overcame myriad bureaucratic hurdles before busting out of the space agency in a big way, seeding the popular OpenStack platform." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org Founder: - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad