h (Rand Simberg) wrote in
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The industry practice, to date, also seems to be to offer very
expensive, unreliable launch systems...

That's not unique to the space industry. The mantra among software
customers is "never buy a dot-zero version of anything." The cynical among
us suspect that's the main reason why Microsoft started getting cute with
their version numbers starting with Windows 95.

Personally, I am skeptical of buying first-model-year cars, as well.
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