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by someperson 2135 days ago
Boeing's Space Launch System and to a lesser extent ULA's (Atlas/Delta) are certainly disliked among many space enthusiasts (on /r/spacex and other watering holes) for wasting taxpayer money in huge amounts.

Blue Origin is disliked for being an extremely well-funded project that appears to make almost no progress after 20 years, yet causes SpaceX grief by being a patenting the landing rockets on ocean platforms idea just as they were about to achieve it (and the "join the club" tweet).

The hate may or may not be petty, but it's wrong to say it's not there.

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Also for trying, back in 2014, to grab the lease on launch pad 39A at Cape Canaveral, which ultimately went to SpaceX, without having an orbital rocket to launch from it -- not then, and not now.