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Virgin Galactic’s Open Source Spaceship

What a great concept!   Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic is launching a spaceship project where they’ll apply to space flight the principles from Open Source software development – ie shared development by community without the encumbrances of profitable ownership.  Profit works best for some things, but in a space as innovative as space this is probably the best approach to get the job done faster.   Space Kudos to Branson!

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January 23, 2008 - Posted by | science, Science & Technology, Social Networks, walmart | , ,

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  1. [...] spelling motifs that I find distracting… Interestingly White Knight 2 seems to be built on an open architecture although it isn’t clear to me just how open it is… Whitehorn clarified the open [...]

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