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

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