<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Shannon Roddy</b> <<a href="mailto:sroddy@gmail.com">sroddy@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br><div><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/29/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">John Hebert</b> <<a href="mailto:metanoid@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
metanoid@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Shannon, what's up with the JPL situation? I hadn't heard they had problems.</div></div></blockquote></span><div><br>
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Can't find the original article that was on JPL's site.<br>
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NASA/Congress has cut funding. I think JPL just laid off 10%
across the board. They are administered by Caltech, therefore it
cuts into Caltech's bottom line. Caltech has had some serious
budget problems for the last few years. Rumor has it that a lot
of it was because of a financial officer asleep at the wheel around the
time of dot-bust. (totally unsubstantiated, though he is no
longer there... Also, I heard a rumor that MIT hired him
afterwards. Go figure...) <br>
</div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div>"Ok, we'll
pay that." If you value freedom, then you must allow LSU to make their
own business decisions.</div></div></blockquote></span></div><br>
I would only comment that Caltech/MIT is privately funded, where LSU is
a state funded school. So, for LSU, there should be some
oversight by taxpayers.</blockquote><div><br>
Good point, but I'll guess that even if whatever oversight board that
normally watches LSU's budget knew about the Microsoft deal, they would
probably not know about alternatives. However, I do believe that
software developed with public funds (taxes) should be open-sourced.<br>
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John<br>
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