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UK Demands Sourcecode for Strike Fighters

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we're-taking-our-jets-and-going-home dept.

An anonymous reader writes ""The UK has warned America that it will cancel its £12bn order for the Joint Strike Fighter if the US does not hand over full access to the computer software code that controls the jets" Lord Drayson, minister for defense procurement, told the The Daily Telegraph that the planes were useless without control of the software as they could effectively be "switched off" by the Americans without warning."

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  1. Linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So does it run linux?

  2. Re:Folks, the Cold War is over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I find it offensive.

    Good, it's meant to be.

  3. Re:Folks, the Cold War is over by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Congratulations! You've become what you hate!