Thanks for the quote Joel.
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On Behalf Of Schlagel, Joel D IWR
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 8:20 AM
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Interesting Article on Open Source @ NASA ..
http://gcn.com/articles/2010/05/06/kemp-nasa-open-source.aspx
Not directly related to geospatial technology, but a number of memorable
quotes:
Developing with open source is important to the government, Kemp said,
because it helps the government have an influence over emerging standards
and to push commercial software providers into supporting features that
benefit the government.
³We see a close correlation between the areas of new development where
standards do not really exist and open-source development,² Kemp told the
OGI audience.³Open-source development allows the federal government to adopt
emerging standards, and to create a reference platform from standards work
that's going on at NIST and various other standards bodies that are being
coordinated by NIST.²
-joel
Joel D. Schlagel
U.S. Army Engineer Institute for Water Resources
http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil
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