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   bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 (bert_hubert@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 21:51:27 JST bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦

   For the people speculating about "jailbreaking" the F35 so you could fly it without US support. The thing is so maintenance heavy it won't fly after a week if you stop supplying it proprietary parts and loving US vendor help. The software is only a tiny thing relatively speaking. This goes for a lot of high-end military kit.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 09-Mar-2025 21:51:27 JST 翠星石

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     @bert_hubert If you have the source code to the F35, then you won't need the support of the US military to use and maintain the software, as it's written in GNU ada, assembly, C++ and C, all of which can be compiled by GCC.
     
     The proprietary hardware would indeed be the killer.