The meeting continued to be discussed, and then Luo Sheng made a decision that shocked all the attendees.

"I plan to open source the data of the 'Star Arrow' heavy rocket, including the historical data of previous launches, landing gear, payload information, etc., to the world."

Yang Jian'an was directly stunned when he heard his decision: "What? Open source 'Star Arrow' data? Are you sure you're not wrong? ”

Luo Sheng nodded affirmatively: "I am very sure that this data is shared with people all over the world for research or application, and we do not sue them, that is, we use our intellectual property for free." ”

Before the others could react, Yang Jian'an was anxious on the spot, and suddenly spread his hands and seemed to tremble in a loud voice: "I object, these valuable core data are the results of our painstaking research, and some technologies are even leading us, how can they be directly opened and shared with the world?" ”

Yang Lao is really anxious, not to mention that the project team has been fighting day in day after day in the past five years just to catch up with the leading world, just forget if you Luo Sheng are inconsiderate, take a step back and say that you Luo Sheng also smashed a lot of money to come in, and let the world prostitute in one sentence?

Take another 10,000 steps back, why don't you charge some fees? Is this a great selfless act or is it really stupid?

Everyone's reaction Luo Sheng had already expected it, and Academician Yang Jian'an's reaction was the same as he expected, and immediately said to him: "Old Yang, my decision to open source data is not to underestimate or disapprove of the achievements of you and the entire project team, but out of the long-term strategic consideration of Star Arrow International. ”

Yang Jian'an said bluntly: "What strategic considerations require such selfless contributions? ”

Luo Sheng knew that this was difficult for Yang Jian'an to accept, so he patiently explained: "There are several main reasons for making the decision to open source: relying only on Star Arrow International and even private aerospace companies such as Blue Origin, SpaceX, and Orbital Science will not be able to do the entire market, which is one of them; Open source to allow industry insiders across the country and even the world to research and even apply can create more talent base, the more talents we need, the better, this is the second; When the whole world is using our technology, we will have to use our standards in the future, so as to fundamentally rely on us, which is the third. ”

Yang Jian'an and the others looked at each other, and then looked at Luo Sheng in disbelief.

Speaking of this, Luo Sheng couldn't help but smile and added: "There is a saying in Chapter 7 of the Tao Te Ching: Heaven lasts forever. The reason why heaven and earth are long and long is that they can live forever because they do not generate by themselves. It is to live after the saint and outside the body. It is not because of its selflessness and evil, so it can become its selfishness. More than 2,000 years ago, Lao Tzu had already said the mystery of 'selflessness is really selfishness', and only by letting go of oneself can one achieve oneself, so it must be open source. ”

After Luo Sheng said this, everyone couldn't help but re-evaluate his open-source decision in their hearts, because it did make sense, but it took a lot of courage to make a decision.

Yang Jian'an wanted to speak and stopped: "But ......"

Luo Sheng added: "Yang Lao, Star and Arrow International has already explained the problem from the establishment of the name, we are focusing on the scientific and technological trend in the next 30 years, standing under the framework of this pattern, recyclable rockets are just a phased excessive technology for human beings to explore deep space, cheap space shuttle activities are more advantageous, and efficient space activities can go back and forth to the atmosphere in the future space aircraft are also more powerful than recyclable rockets." ”

Luo Sheng paused and continued: "It should be used to the fullest, so that its true historical role can be used by me and brought into play, that is, to serve a higher strategic need, that is, the space ladder." Once the ladder of the future is successfully built, it is time for recyclable rocket technology to retire from the stage of history, which is an inevitable trend of history, and the market will also eliminate it. In this regard, there is no reason to hold a technology that will be replaced in the foreseeable future of 30 years to be precious, especially when we already have something better. ”

Open source is Luo Sheng's decision, no one is useless to oppose it, even if Yang Jian'an picks and doesn't do it, he must unswervingly implement it, but as the chief engineer of "Star Arrow", Luo Sheng still has to persuade him as much as possible and let him accept this fact, and at the same time still hope that he will continue to lead the team to overcome difficulties in the "Star Arrow 20S" super heavy recyclable rocket technology.

After all, changing the commander is a very troublesome thing.

The participants also saw that Luo Sheng was determined to make this decision and open source Star Arrow data to the world.

Yang Jian'an lowered his head and let out a long sigh, and said helplessly: "What you said is not unreasonable, it is this decision that makes people uncomfortable and painstakingly sorted it out...... Alas~"

In the face of Yang Lao's quite emotional remarks, Luo Sheng expressed his understanding with a silent attitude, and the silent attitude also shows that open source is a strategy that the company must implement, and will not change the company's strategy because of emotion.

At the end, Yang Jian'an turned to look at Luo Sheng: "Okay, I don't object to you, anyway, even if I oppose it, I can't stop you, and I don't have to worry about making me emotional, but the follow-up funds have to be added, and I don't feel sorry for the money." ”

In fact, whether the technology is open source or not will not affect Yang Jian'an's honor and personal achievements as the chief engineer of the "Star Arrow" project, and even on the contrary, it can further expand his reputation in the industry, including his influence.

Luo Sheng couldn't help laughing when he heard this and nodded again and again: "Haha, that's no problem, I'm poor and have money left, the research funding of 'Star Arrow 20S' should not only be on par with NASA's SLS, but also exceed, the SLS budget starts at $2 billion per year, and I give $3 billion per year to the budget of 20S. ”

There is no other than Chandor.

When the management at the meeting heard this, they rolled their eyes and secretly slandered: Listen to this is human talk?

But then again, everyone found that there was no way to refute Luo Sheng's words, the most worthless thing in him now is money, is this a man with "money ability"......

Yang Jian'an couldn't help but hesitate for a moment when he heard this number, and said, "So much...... It's a bit much, if not so much, I was just kidding. ”

The point is that this is not too glorious, scientists are also temperamental, even cautious, and they also like to compete in their own profession, Yang Jian'an also knows that SpaceX's Falcon rocket research and development funds have only used 500 million US dollars, and this kind of capital utilization is indeed very efficient.

Luo Sheng smiled: "Then Yang Lao, you can quote a price, you can say as much as you want." ”

Hearing this, Yang Jian'an pondered for a moment and said: "Reduce 500 million, the annual budget of 2.5 billion US dollars should be enough, save it if you can, no one's money is blown by the wind, God knows how much it will cost in the future." ”

One of the executives attending the meeting said: "No, Old Yang, you are wrong, the money in the hands of the big boss is basically not much different from the wind blowing." ”

Luo Sheng immediately made a decision: "Okay, the annual budget of 2.5 billion US dollars is so decided." ”

Although the decision to open source data was divided during the discussion, the final result was unanimous consensus, and the most critical Yang Jian'an supported Luo Sheng's decision, and others had no reason to oppose it.

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Five days later, the popularity of Star Arrow International has receded, but after the news of Luo Sheng's open source data sharing around the world was released on the official website of Star Arrow International, it once again returned to the headlines of major news websites around the world on the same day.

All of a sudden, the media and aerospace circles were shocked.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the rocket is a cutting-edge technology, which can only be played with the investment of state-level forces, and it is a core high-tech with a high degree of secrecy.

Private companies build rockets, which should be unthinkable in the eyes of most people, but Luo Sheng not only thought about it, but also made it.

Now it is even more surprising, he not only made it, but also shared the data to the world after just making it, this core technology that should be highly confidential in the eyes of most people has been published to the whole network by him so generously, anyone can see at a glance, research and even application.

To put it simply, I have published the answer to the whole network, you can just copy the homework, simple and trouble-free, and the most important thing is to save money.

The open source data is the result of tens of billions of dollars.

Star Arrow International has announced that the open source data published by the company can be studied and applied by all scientific research institutions, universities, enterprises or individuals around the world for free, and Star Arrow International will not charge any intellectual property licensing fees.

With this statement, people all over the world can rest assured that they will be bold and not afraid of being sued by Star Arrow International in the future.

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(End of chapter)