Global monopoly of technology

At the end of March.

At a time when the industry is discussing about the Star Arrow International open source event, Luo Sheng is now having a video conference with the leaders of the Ministry of Aerospace Science and Industry, Aerospace Science and Technology and Technology.

The content of the discussion is surprisingly the open source issue of Star Arrow International's recoverable rocket technology.

"Comrade Luo Sheng, today we are not here to ask you about opening up rocket technology. After all, this is a market behavior, but we still want to know whether Star Arrow International will still be open to higher-end technologies in the future? There are also strategic issues that can be easily said. Click?" said the head of the science and technology department on the video screen.

This incident surprised many people. At present, in China, Star Arrow International has the most advanced rocket recovery technology in the country. The Ministry of Science and Technology also attaches great importance to this matter.

Luo Sheng did not answer immediately, but thought for a while. It was possible to say a little bit about strategic issues, but not all of them. Now is not the time.

After a while, Luo Sheng smiled and said: "Regarding the issue of open source technology, how to open source depends on competitors. I have open source if I have opponents, and of course not open source if I have technical opponents."

The general manager of Aerospace Science and Industry laughed: "Mr. Luo, I have to say that your trick is really a bit of a loss. If Elon Musk has been mad at you, I can’t sleep in the middle of the night."

Luo Sheng couldn't help but smiled, and immediately continued: "As for strategic issues, looking at the growth process of my country's opening up over the past few decades, we are considering the scale effect formed by the cooperation of institutional advantages and the agglomeration effect of the talent industry. It has become the world’s largest corpse economy today, and it has become the first developing country in the East that can challenge the industrial hegemony of Western developed countries since the 300-year industrial revolution."

"Our industrialization is not a process of capital accumulation, but a process of metabolism of old and new industries. Our learning speed exceeds the speed of innovation in the West, so we can'surpass the speed of innovation in the West'. In the past 30 years, our learning speed has exceeded the speed of innovation in the West. In the next 30 years, we will achieve the speed of innovation surpassing the speed of learning in the West."

"my country's aerospace industry still needs more talents, and Star Arrow International is also in urgent need of talents, including other industries. We want to achieve that our innovation speed surpasses the learning speed of the West in the future. Talents are the foundation. It is to further increase the growth of the talent industry. The older generation has completed its historical mission, and our generation has also begun to shoulder the burden and abandon its opponents in the garbage dump of history."

This remark immediately made everyone unable to speak, because fundamentally it blocked everyone's mouth and couldn't object.

This is indeed the case. It is good for the country and Star Arrow International is also good. It is not in conflict between public and private, but complementary.

Luo Sheng added with a smile: "After open source, not only Chinese talents will learn and research, but foreign talents will also learn and research. This is for sure. If foreign talents improve by 20 points, our talents will improve by 100 points. After hedging 20 points, we are actually still a significant 80 points ahead. The reason why we say that our innovation speed will surpass the Western learning speed is because our country has the largest group of engineers in the world."

The leaders of the Ministry of Science and Technology could not help but silently nod their heads in agreement. Of course, the entire world and the whole of human civilization are progressing. Everyone is progressing, but the degree of progress is different. Some progress fast, and some progress slowly.

As long as the speed and quantity of domestic talents are higher than those in foreign countries, the speed of innovation must surpass the learning speed of foreigners.

The video conference ended soon, and I just came to ask about the situation, which was not a big deal.

The open source data of Star Arrow International is also a good thing for national teams such as Aerospace Science and Industry, Aerospace Science and Technology Group, and can be used directly for reference and research.

The Ministry of Science and Technology also saw Luo Sheng’s confidence in Star Arrow International from this not-too-long video conference. If you dare to do so, you are obviously confident that you will master more advanced technologies in the future. Otherwise, open source is to perfect others. If you make a blockage to your opponent, it will also affect yourself and block yourself. Only if your own technology is one level ahead can you avoid this embarrassing situation.

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The next day, another piece of news caught people's attention, and Google suddenly jumped out and made a kick, and it also swept a wave of presence on open source data.

Larry Page directly posted a dynamic statement on his MicroBlog social account: Google is considering the acquisition of the Boston Dynamics "Robodog" project and the unmanned driving technology of Google X Labs to open source and share it to the world. Code.

Another world-renowned technology giant announced that it would take the route of open source and sharing. For a while, the word "open source" has become a popular term in the technology industry.

On the Internet, whether open source technology is better or closed technology is better. So far, it has been stubbornly different, and the war of words is full of joy.

But under this circumstance, they found that the technology giants had already begun to make choices, giving people a kind of sudden, open source wind prevailed all over the world.

In fact, the so-called open source to change the grounding attitude is to form a gang to build a mountain, the choice of whose technical system means to accept the standard of the technical system, and whoever is in control of this standard has the international pricing power. .

The best way to defeat an opponent is not to destroy the opponent, but to turn the opponent into your own person, and it is best to become your own tool man willingly.

Larry Page, who is on the outside but knows that one day he will not be able to stay outside, understands this and realizes the benefits of having few enemies and many friends. As the leader of the industry, he gives the kids a bite to eat and binds them. Being prosperous on their own chariots fundamentally eliminated the idea that they wanted to "undergo the grammar" to do something unpleasant.

It's not just Larry Page, a tech tycoon who understands this, but Elon Musk who is in it can also see clearly.

Not long after that, just entering April, SpaceX also issued an important announcement, opening up SpaceX rocket-related data-SpaceX-API on Github.

Obviously, this move made people see that SpaceX was entangled, and Elon Musk was helpless.

The open source strength is not as good as Star Arrow International, because if you want to achieve the strength of Star Arrow International, then SpaceX will not have the technical advantage. However, although Luo Sheng’s Star Arrow International offsets this part of the competitiveness, he still has unparalleled "currency". ability".

Comparing the advantages and disadvantages of the two sides, Elon Musk certainly knows this.

Luo Sheng can bear Star Arrow International without making a penny for five or six years, and can continue to burn more than 10 billion or even 20 billion US dollars a year, but Elon Musk’s SpaceX company cannot do this. Money capacity"

Once the open source efforts are followed up, orders may not be received, there is no source of income without orders, and there is no other channel to cover SpaceX’s financial expenditures. The final result may not be able to continue operations and face the risk of bankruptcy.

If it fails to keep up, it will allow the emerging private aerospace companies that will emerge soon to adopt Star Arrow International's technical standards.

The predicament created by Luo Sheng’s operation for SpaceX is almost a dead end. The road is blocked. If you follow up, you will die quickly. If you don’t follow up, you will die slowly, whether it is fast or slow. Death, the result is death, there is no difference.

It's really to go its own way, leaving the opponent with nowhere to go.

This is not only the awkward situation SpaceX is facing now, but also North American private space companies such as Blue Origin, Sierra Nevada and Orbital Sciences.

Luo Sheng relied on his "currency ability" to make Star Arrow International's learning speed surpass the innovation speed of its competitors. After five or six years of learning and catching up, it has equaled the results created by its opponents in more than ten years. It is only a matter of how long it takes to catch up with the opponent when the “money capability” continues to increase.

At that time, the situation will be reversed. It is the opponent's turn to start learning to catch up with Star Arrow International. However, without Luo Sheng's "currency ability", it is impossible for Elon Musk to give SpaceX 20 billion a year. USD R&D investment.

The result must be that the speed of learning cannot keep up with the speed of innovation of Star Arrow International. In the long run, the living space is constantly being squeezed, and the fate of being out of the game seems to be doomed.

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