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- From: hack@arabia.uucp (Edmund Hack)
- Subject: Re: Stupid Shut Cost arguements (was Re: Terminal Velocity of DCX?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.200444.11917@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
- Summary: Be careful in wording.
- Sender: Edmund Hack
- Organization: Lockheed ESC, Houston
- References: <1992Dec28.172953.26161@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.725647230@convex.convex.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:04:44 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- In article <ewright.725647230@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >In <1992Dec28.172953.26161@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >
- >>Shuttle's costs were all accounted for too. The customer, the US
- >>taxpayer, wanted R&D done to develop a reusable spacecraft. NASA
- >>did it, and that public domain database of technologies is what
- >>the taxpayer got for his money, not bent metal.
-
- [flamage deleted]
- >
- >Furthermore, you are wrong in stating that the information is
- >in the public domain. It is the property of the United States
- >Government. Any taxpayer who wants to use this information has
- >to pay (again) for the privilege.
-
- How do they have to pay except for copying costs? Certain parts of the
- shuttle design may be either classified (i.e. the comm crypto gear) or
- proprietary (some of the COTS equipment), but the bulk is available for
- copying costs. If I want a copy of the schematics, I find a copying
- cost charge reasonable.
- >
- >>NASA is not supposed to be in the fabrication business.
- >
- >You're right. So why do you support NASA being in a business
- >that it is illegal for them to be in?
- ^^^^^^^
- Please cite the _exact_ basis for this statement, i.e. the part of the
- U.S. Code or the appropriations laws that make it illegal to fabricate
- things. Either that or be more careful in your flaming. Accusing NASA
- of illegal acts without basis is impolite at the minimum.
-
- Also, this thread has gone about as far as it can go. Please save
- bandwidth and disk wear and tear and _drop it_. Please.
-
- --
- Edmund Hack - Lockheed Engineering & Sciences Co. - Houston, TX
- hack@aio.jsc.nasa.gov - I speak only for myself, unless blah, blah..
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