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Tuesday 1 April 2008, 4:38 PM

Is there open source on Mars?

Posted by PeterJudge

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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harpless

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.

Posted by harpless on Apr 1, 2008 6:07 PM

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