On Jan 28, 10:22*pm, wrote:
When you get right down to it....the aviation industry has been open
source since it began. *All the advancements in aviation design have
been largely improvements on prior designs. *Hell, even Rutans designs
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I don't think you know what open source means.

Most aviation advances have been held strictly secret, either by
companies or by governments. Nobody advertises their advances to their
potential adversaries.

Open source DEMANDS that it's a fundamental right to know how
something works.

Anybody wants to give their ideas away, fine by me.

No, I know exactly what open source means and have been a participant
in some limited areas. I am not talking about the corporate and
government worlds of super high tech development systems but general
aviation. In that realm, the developments have largely been by
experimentation based on designs and ideas gained from others. That
may not be "open source" in the strictest sense of todays software
development model but is in reality the same type of development.
Don't know of anybody that has any patents on NACA wing designs for
example.