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The CEO of a $1.2B space company can't use its technology
- londons_explore 6y agoTech export restrictions hold humanity back. Those responsible should be ashamed of themselves.
- jvanderbot 6y agoThis is entirely unrealistic. Tech export restrictions are a reflection of reality. Ideally, export restrictions would not be necessary, but the reality is providing weaponizeable or military technologies in public domain is irresponsible. Admittedly, this case is focsed only on geopolitical rivals, but it's easy to see that releasing many other restricted technology details so they can be easily reproduced by anyone would have a destabilizing influence on the world.
- chews 6y ago^---- I'd call this FUD, AES can secure your whatsapp messages, secure your bitcoins, or be the defacto standard for US security. Had the nice Dutch humans been subject to the export restrictions... we'd (the US) would be in a sad place security wise... am I the only one to remembers when my terminal program had the scary "don't give this to russia, it's technically a weapon" dialog.
- jvanderbot 6y agoI agree, some things should not be ITAR. But I assert, some things very much should be. OP said export restrictions are bunk, no matter what. That's a silly thing to say. I assert, divulging the inner workings of, say, cruise missiles, would make it far too easy to make cruise missiles. Some things shouldn't be on github.
- hobby-coder-guy 6y agoNuclear weapons?
- nickik 6y agoIts a very interesting company, and I think a pretty sound buissness model. With ever larger SpaceX rockets and powerful sats getting smaller, there is a lot that they can do. I like their propulsion system, but they don't tell the exact specs. I would never invest without knowing that stuff.
- hikerclimb 6y agoGood. Hopefully they can never use there technology
- jbverschoor 6y agoMomentus is a YC18 company by the way.