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Re:LWN debates whether using GPL software on missiles counts... by planetguy on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @11:20AM (#4100876)
Can't be that old, has to post-date the declassification of the F-117A in 1988. On the other hand, has to predate the subsuming of McDonell-Douglas into Boeing in 1997.

I was going to try to get more specific by figuring out when exactly Grumman (maker of the F-14) and General Dynamics (maker of the F-16) got subsumed into McDonnell-Douglas, but it turns out that they never did, they wound up in Lockheed. So whoever wrote this clearly didn't know all that much about fighter aircraft.

Re:LWN debates whether using GPL software on missiles counts... by excuse-me on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @11:47AM (#4101010)
The joke has been re-written and re-told with new aircraft names many-many times - it dates back to at least Korea.