[pchelpers] Re: NASA SOFTWARE DETECTS 'BUGS' IN JAVA COMPUTER CODE

This seems like a good idea. Get the public to find the bugs and give 
them the benefit for it. In return, they get more reliable spacecraft 
control systems.

earthrise wrote:

>John Bluck                   April 26, 2005
>NASA Ames Research Center,  Moffett Field, Calif.
>Phone: 650/604-5026 or 604-9000
>E-mail:  jbluck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>Valerie Williamson
>Open Source Technology  Group, VA Software Corporation, Fremont, Calif.
>Phone:  510/687-7116
>
>RELEASE: 05-28AR
>NASA DEVELOPS NEW SOFTWARE TO DETECT  'BUGS' IN JAVA COMPUTER CODE
>
>NASA scientists today announced they are  releasing free software that 
>will find 'bugs,' or defects, in Java computer  code.
>
>The new software, Java Pathfinder, is classified as 'open source  
>software.' Open source software is computer code that scientists make  
>publicly available, often at no cost, so users can freely utilize and  
>modify it. Java is a computer language that software developers  
>frequently use to write programs for computer networks such as the  
>Internet.
>  
>
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