Comments on: The Role of Open Methods in the Development of the First Airplane https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-role-of-open-methods-in-the-development-of-the-first-airplane/ Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:50:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.16 By: Alberto https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-role-of-open-methods-in-the-development-of-the-first-airplane/comment-page-1/#comment-485829 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:50:31 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=18843#comment-485829 I read once that the fabric Santos Dumont used in his airplanes was inspired in the existing and known work by the Wright brothers. I never verified this story, but that would be another neat example of collaboration there. Very pretty like all the other facts you mention. But eventually the brother’s project became a military secret research. Not quite cool. They left very little information and documentation behind. You should tell the full story in this article. It shows the difference between normal open-source licences, and GPL or CC Share-Alike. The Wright brothers are a good example of someone who picks up open source work and then just build something for themselves on top of it.

I still think their alleged first flight was just a long jump that landed in the mud, like it happened in the centenary re-enactment…

]]> By: Lori https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-role-of-open-methods-in-the-development-of-the-first-airplane/comment-page-1/#comment-485828 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 17:54:46 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=18843#comment-485828 Assuming what you say is true, Wright Aviation showed no hesitation to stomp on the commons from whence it came. Sort of reminiscent of biographical sketches of Bill Gates and Paul Allen that speak of “disassembly” and other forms of “reverse engineering,” a process of course forbidden by the Microsoft EULA. In the case of the aircraft industry, going into World War I, the US government created a “patent pool” so an aircraft industry would even be able to exist, let alone advance the state of the art. The aviation patent pool is often used today as an illustration of the Tragedy of the Anticommons.

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