NASA (was: Computing and Politics)

[gabriel]

On March 29, 2004 10:54 am, William Park wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:18:37AM -0500, Zoltan/ZEE4 wrote:
> > Ever wonder why China is going Linux? or building it's own processors
> > (not that they'll be competitive for maybe another few years)?
>
> For the same reason US is funding NASA.  It keeps engineers and
> scientists off the street and from committing crimes.

does NASA run linux?  they don't run windows do they?

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