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Tuesday 1 April 2008, 4:38 PM
Is there open source on Mars?
Anyone who's been to BA Terminal 5 will have shown enough fortitude and courage to earn a priority place on the open source Mars colony, announced today by Virgin and Google.
The Virgle project has some amusing bits - though Richard Branson is exactly as boring as you knew he would be. For him, it's all just an excuse for a po-faced plug for his sub-orbital flight business.
Meanwhile, Google's side speculates on an open source planet - but actually it's talking about a shared-ownership co-operative enterprise.
I'm surprised Apple isn't there too.
Anyway, if any Tux penguins are getting there, they'd better practice their flying.
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Must be april fools! we're probably 50 years away from putting a man on Mars. NASA can't do it, why would Google & Virgin even try? Investors certainly wouldn't approve.
