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by thesiniot 1459 days ago
It reminds me of that time the US Air Force designed an "open source jet engine".

https://www.wpafb.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/201113...

Their definition of "open source" turned out to be: "the government owns the source IP instead of some defense contractor. No, you can't see it."

In fairness, I'm impressed that they even got that far. How do you think the defense contractor lobbyists responded to that program?