[NMLUG] NASA World Wind 1.3 released - only on W2K/XP platform!

[sbrowne at ix.netcom.com (Steve Browne)]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:27:12 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

>Too expensive to develop for a GNU/Linux platform? A GNU/Linux port?
>Last time I checked vi and Perl, HTML, XML are free, in addition there are
>tens of other utilities (MathXML, PNG) available for free to anyone with
>a computer and an internet connection.  Just bring desire to learn.
>
>You will have to excuse my sardonic tone but quite frankly I am not buying
>the argument that developing with C# or DirectX is actually less
>expensive or requires less effort.  I hear this half-baked argument
>all the time at the college I go to, from the people I refer to as
>'Microsoft Majors'.  They are students who are taught, no, indoctrinated
>in the arts of utilizing proprietary software exclusively.
>But when it comes time to actually do something ingenious they cant
>wrap their minds around how a computer actually works on the inside.
>There are plenty of books out there on how to do image processing
>with Perl (lets not forget C and C++, if you arent fairly proficient in C
>then quite frankly you do not belong in CompSci).
>All are programming languages that are based on sound Computer Science.

[snip]

>Steve M

I'm not snipping your entire discourse. However, the point here is
that NASA's World Wind is an incredible door to 3D imagery of the
entire Earth. There are other terrain map Web sites popping up -
Google just introduced one, but it only covers major cities. World
Wind covers everything! Of course, I don't know how they reconcile
this with National Security, nor do I quite understand how this is
Open Source software, but for Windows.

I thought someone on this list might be interested in querying NASA
about contributing to a Linux version. No hidden motives or axes
(GNU-Linux) to grind.

Steve
Stephen B. Browne
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