This is a step forward. Earlier NASA open-source had to be released only on open channel: http://www.openchannelsoftware.com/cosmic/ http://www.openchannelsof

This is a step forward. Earlier NASA open-source had to be released only on open channel: http://www.openchannelsoftware.com/cosmic/ http://www.openchannelsoftware.com/cosmic/ This is not workable because it wasn't possible for non-NASA developers to contribute back. This one-way system resulted in other software being released piecemeal, outside the above process, e.g. http://oodt.apache.org/ http://oodt.apache.org/ Doing even this took a lot of work.