A great deal of open source software is used by the alt.space industry. Under the terms of the GPL, since there is no "customer", there is no need to release it, however the benefits of sharing code are well understood at this point, notably, "with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". It would be my hope that tons of duplicated effort could be reduced and problems with interoperability spotted, - and catastrophic bugs like the one that felled the falcon 1's third launch avoided - if more code related to the space program showed up in the public sphere.
To what extent is planetary resources going to be releasing bits of code?
Are various partners (notably spacex) making code available to insure interoperability?
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A great deal of open source software is used by the alt.space industry. Under the terms of the GPL, since there is no "customer", there is no need to release it, however the benefits of sharing code are well understood at this point, notably, "with enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". It would be my hope that tons of duplicated effort could be reduced and problems with interoperability spotted, - and catastrophic bugs like the one that felled the falcon 1's third launch avoided - if more code related to the space program showed up in the public sphere.
To what extent is planetary resources going to be releasing bits of code?
Are various partners (notably spacex) making code available to insure interoperability?
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