Re: Hubble Space Telescope - optical prescription of WFPC2

Jim Klein writes:

It should not be held as a secret or as proprietary information as our
tax dollars paid a lot for the design and its implementation.

Yeah, just like all the university research, source code, patents, etc are
in the public domain.
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