The first thing that's going to happen is that mostly likely the US govt will get them to sign documents etc that the jet cannot be used in another country where there are reverse engineers who can clone technology. However, I don't know why it would be called reverse engineering in another nation while its called open source in the origin country. I can just imagine how AT&T and the core Unix group felt when their work was reversed and released to nations that proprietary cannot sell to. For example, is the free nature of Unix-Clones being used a internet filtering devices in countries looking for better democratic values since proprietary vendors are forbidden to trade with such?

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:

Just as I was looking at the vault image, I was distracted by the news that the three Google execs own 8 jets between them, which was not that surprising, until I learned that one of the jets was actually a fighter jet. Since then, I have been trying to figure out what exactly they do with a fighter jet, and how the US government is quite comfortable with civilians owning such sophisticated military equipment . I am lso looking into the possibility of them owning a drone ...

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