End of March.

At a time when the industry is discussing the open source incident of Star Arrow International, Luo Sheng is holding a video conference with the leaders of Aerospace Science and Industry, Aerospace Science and Technology and the Ministry of Science and Technology.

The content of the discussion is the issue of open source technology of Star Arrow International's recyclable rockets.

"Comrade Luo Sheng, today we didn't come here to question you about opening up rocket technology, after all, this is a market behavior, but we still want to know whether Star Arrow International will still be open to more high-end technologies in the future? Is there also a strategic question? The leader of the Ministry of Science and Technology on the video screen said.

This incident has surprised many people, at present, in China, Star Arrow International has the most advanced rocket recovery technology in the country, and the Ministry of Science and Technology also attaches great importance to this matter.

Luo Sheng didn't answer immediately, but thought for a moment, he could say a little about strategic issues, but he couldn't say them all, now is not the time.

After a while, Luo Sheng said with a smile: "Regarding the issue of open source technology, how to open source depends on the competitors, I have some opponents, I will open source, and some of my technical opponents have not yet, of course, they will not be open source." ”

The general manager of Aerospace Science and Industry said with a smile: "Mr. Luo, I have to say that your trick is really a bit damaged, if I were Elon Musk, I would probably be angry with you and couldn't sleep in the middle of the night." ”

Luo Sheng couldn't help but smile, and then continued: "As for the strategic issue, looking at the growth process of China's opening up in the past few decades, we are looking at the scale effect formed by the cooperation of institutional advantages, as well as the agglomeration effect of the talent industry, which has become the largest corpse economy in the world today, and has become the first developing country in the East that can challenge the industrial hegemony of the western developed countries since the three hundred years of the industrial revolution. ”

"Our industrialization is not a process of capital accumulation, but a process of metabolism of old and new industries, and our learning speed exceeds the speed of innovation in the West, so we can 'catch up'. In the first 30 years, our learning speed exceeded the speed of Western innovation, and in the next 30 years, we will achieve that the speed of innovation exceeds the learning speed of the West. ”

"China's aerospace industry still needs more talents, Star Arrow International is also in urgent need of talents, including other industries, want to achieve the future of our innovation speed beyond the learning speed of the West, talent is the foundation, the purpose of open source is actually to further increase the growth of the talent industry, the older generation has completed the historical mission, our generation has also begun to pick up the burden to move forward, abandon the opponent in the garbage heap of history."

These words immediately made everyone speechless, because in the fundamental sense, they blocked everyone's mouths and could not object.

It is indeed the case, it is beneficial to the country, it is also beneficial to Star Arrow International, and it is not in conflict with public and private, but complements each other.

Luo Sheng added with a smile: "After the open source, not only our people will learn and research, but foreign talents will also learn and research, this is for sure, if foreign talents have improved by 20 points, our talents have improved by 100 points, hedged by 20 points, we are actually still ahead by 80 points, the reason why our innovation speed will surpass the learning speed of the West, is because China has the largest group of engineers in the world." ”

The leaders of the Ministry of Science and Technology couldn't help but nod their heads silently in agreement, the whole world and human civilization as a whole are of course progressing, everyone is progressing, but the degree of progress is different, some people are making fast progress, some people are making slow progress.

As long as the speed and quantity of domestic talents are higher than those of foreign countries, of course, the speed of innovation will surpass the learning speed of foreigners.

The video conference ended quickly, and I came to ask about the situation, which was not a big deal.

Star Arrow International's open source data is also a good thing for national teams such as Aerospace Science and Industry and Aerospace Science and Technology Group, and it can be directly used for reference and research.

The Ministry of Science and Technology also saw Luo Sheng's confidence in Star Arrow International from this not too long video conference, and dared to do this is obviously confident that he will master more advanced technology in the future, otherwise open source is to fulfill others, you must know that if you make this to block the opponent, it will also act on yourself and add blockage to yourself, and only by taking your own technology one level ahead can you avoid this embarrassing situation.

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The next day, another piece of news caught people's attention, and Google suddenly jumped out and intervened, and also swiped a wave of presence on open source data.

Larry Page directly posted a dynamic on his MicroBlog social account: Google is considering the "robot dog" project developed by Boston Dynamics, which it acquired, and the driverless technology of Google X Labs to the world to open source and share its code.

Another world-renowned technology giant announced that it would take the route of open source sharing, and for a while, the word "open source" became a hot term in the technology world.

Whether open source technology or closed technology is better on the Internet is still in conflict, and the war of words is endless.

But in this case, they found that the tech giants had already begun to make choices, giving the impression that all of a sudden, open source was all the rage around the world.

In fact, the so-called open source to change the down-to-earth argument is to form a gang to set up a mountain, and the choice of whose technical system means to accept the standard of the technical system, and whoever is the controller of this standard has the right to set international pricing.

The best way to defeat an opponent is not to destroy the opponent, but to make the opponent his own person, and it is better to willingly become his own tool.

Larry Page, who was on the outside but knew that he would not be able to stay out of it one day, understood this, realized the benefits of having fewer enemies and more friends, and became the leader of the industry alliance himself, giving the younger brothers a bite to eat, tying them to their chariots for glory, and fundamentally eliminating their desire to "do something wrong".

It's not just Larry Page who understands this, but Elon Musk, who is in it, also sees it clearly.

Shortly after that, just entering April, SpaceX also released an important announcement, open-sourcing SpaceX rocket-related data on Github - SpaceX-API.

Obviously, this move shows that SpaceX is tangled and Elon Musk is in a dilemma.

The open source strength is completely inferior to Star Arrow International, because if you want to achieve the strength of Star Arrow International, then SpaceX has no technical advantage, but although Luo Sheng's Star Arrow International has offset this part of the competitiveness, he still has unparalleled "money ability".

The advantages and disadvantages of the two sides, Elon Musk is certainly aware of this.

Luo Sheng can afford to keep Star Arrow International burning more than 10 billion or even 20 billion US dollars a year without earning a penny for five or six years, but Elon Musk's SpaceX company can't do this, he doesn't have the "money ability".

Once the open source efforts are followed, there may be no orders, there will be no source of income without orders, and there will be no other channels to cover SpaceX's financial expenditures, and the final result may not be able to operate, thus facing the risk of bankruptcy and bankruptcy.

And if it can't keep up, it will make the new private space companies that are about to emerge adopt the technical standards of Star Arrow International.

The dilemma created by Luo Sheng's operation for SpaceX is almost a dead end, blocking the road, if you follow up, you will die quickly, and if you don't follow up, you will die slowly, but whether it is fast or slow, the result is death, no difference.

It's really about going your own way and leaving your opponent with no way out.

This isn't just the awkward situation SpaceX is facing right now, but also North American private space companies like Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada, and Orbital Science.

Luo Sheng relied on his "money ability" to make Star Arrow International in the learning speed of the innovation speed of peer competitors, five or six years of learning to catch up has been equal to the opponent with more than ten years to create the results, if in the "money ability" continues to increase the intensity of the opponent to catch up with the opponent is just a matter of how much time.

At that time, the situation will be reversed, and it will be the turn of the opponent to start learning to catch up with Star Arrow International, but because of Luo Sheng's "money ability", it is impossible for Elon Musk to give SpaceX $20 billion in R&D investment every year.

The result is inevitably that the learning speed cannot catch up with the innovation speed of Star Arrow International, and the living space will continue to be squeezed in the long run, and the fate of the final exit seems to be doomed.

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(End of chapter)