there is software that my tax dollars have paid to produce that is not free to me to download and is not released under open source licenses.

gipsy-oasis.jpl.nasa.gov/index

this seems wrong to me

@sneak The US government gets really weird about things having to do with space.

I wrote a NASA patent once. The filing for it got me a little confused because you need to get anything space-related cleared with NASA first.

Fortunately, New Space is a Thing and there are other orgs that escape the atmosphere now.

@sneak I asked them about it. It was something about the kinetic energy of a rock outside our atmosphere being equivalent to the largest bomb we have dropped.

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