[lug] IP: Open source in government

[Zichary O`Tea]

> The government has actually provided a number of fairly significant
> contributions to open source projects.  Don't forget the network driver
> development done by Donald Becker at NASA.  Without this, your Linux box
> would have a hard time talking to the net.  Then there was the development
> of the Beowulf concept by the same group of people at NASA.  Let's see,
> what else ... how about the maintenance of numpy
> <http://www.python.org/topics/scicomp/numpy.html> by the Computer Science
> Team, X-Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.  These are just
> a few examples, there are a good number of others.

NASA also keeps the value 8086's high:
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/12/technology/ebusiness/12NASA.html