"It’s like a big round table and we get companies and people around – and the general public can be members and partners. Perrin sees himself as a ‘benevolent dictator in chief’ like Linux founder Linus Torvalds – heading up a small nucleus of design staff, taking on board contributions from around the globe and having the final say on what goes on the car they’d like to develop.Īnd where would all these great ideas from? Individuals, schools, universities – rather like the Bloodhound SSC land-speed record project. People contribute, and can create their own versions. Once seen as a counter to Microsoft Windows’ dominance, it’s now used more on smartphones (it operates beneath Android, for example) and other devices such as tablets, video games consoles, mainframes and servers. "It is global, because we’re involving people from anywhere in the world and open source in the sense that we share the knowledge, we share the design, we share the communication to everyone that wants to be involved and it’s open to the public."Ī good analogy with what Perrin is trying to build is Linux, the open-source computer operating system developed in the 1990s. It will be a real team with real people and real racing cars going to race on real tracks, in Formula 1 and at Le Mans. It’s not virtual in the sense that it will only exist on the internet.
'It will be a real team with real people and real racing cars going to race on real tracks,' says Nicolas Perrin
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