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Not hugely, since NASA is an organization with a very narrowly tailored scope, and it's participating in FOSS projects as a means to the end of facilitating its
by Gormo 3y ago
Not hugely, since NASA is an organization with a very narrowly tailored scope, and it's participating in FOSS projects as a means to the end of facilitating its space-exploration mission.
FOSS is incidental to NASA's purpose;: they use and modify code, and contribute their work back upstream, but aren't engaged in software development for public consumption as a primary activity.
OTOH, I'd be extremely wary of a political organization founded for the specific purpose of funding/influencing the overall FOSS ecosystem.