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Comment ESA has been doing this for years (Score 4, Informative) 62

ESA has been sponsoring FOSS projects for years; I worked on the GPL'ed BEAT software no less than seven years ago that was commissioned by ESA (disclosure: I am no longer with the company that develops it).

See here for more examples of open source software funded by ESA. They are really ahead of the pack in this respect.

Comment Re:hum (Score 2, Interesting) 874

[i]It must have been terrible being one of these soldiers[/i] It sure must have. Especially the ones who assisted the Serbs in separating the men from the women. And the CO Karremans who exchanged gifts with the Serb CO Mladic, while a mile down the road the genocide was being perpetrated. It must have been terrible for them, terrible. [i]the whole Dutch government resigned[/i] Yeah, about two weeks prior to a scheduled change-of-government. Talk about an empty gesture. I am dutch too and I am deeply ashamed of the cowardly way our military behaved over there. I cannot blame the soldiers, but at least the officers should have shown more of a backbone, or if they thought they were given an impossible order to defend the area they should have resigned before the shit hit the fan.

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