[amsat-bb] ORI receives half million dollar grant, and, it's only the first.

[Bruce Perens]

Zach,

The purpose is not to berate AMSAT but to make a point - that AMSAT can
meet the requirements of ARDC and potentially have money for launches from
a source that is actually giving out money on that scale. But the cost for
AMSAT is running the project ITAR and EAR free, and producing the software
as Open Source and the design documents under creative commons.

Now, most people would say "Sure, let's do that, it's worth it. As it
happens, people here have just soundly rejected that plan.

At this point, AMSAT needs to make the decision to run some projects in
Open Source mode, or turn its back on the potential for million-dollar
checks. That is the point.

    Thanks

    Bruce