03-02-2010, 04:08 PM
[quote name='Arun_S' date='01 March 2010 - 10:42 PM' timestamp='1267463077' post='104683']
Aegis with its AESA radar is a trojen, unless India gets the full source code. Let US provide the source code and only then India can consider it a viable sales offer.
I can see the US cringe at it, like sharing JSF F-35 source code <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Will not happen.
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Its unwise to ask for such things, knowing that LM has spent their billions to develope this ACS and wont part away with that, Spain and Norway use Aegis but they dont have source code. Remember the olden days of coca cola formula row (George Fernandez) and coke was thrown out of India and it (Coke) did not care?
As for trojan horse, you can still find C-130 and P-8I bugged (if they want it to, they can do it), they did the same to Chinese VVIP aircraft too in the past.
The country like USA enforces their EUM (End Use Monitoring provisions required under American law) which among other things include the USAââ¬â¢s Communications and Information Security Memorandum of Agreement that governs how, when, and by whom sensitive information can be shared with India, and even within India, IMO these are very intrusive too. When you deal with USA, this is what you get.
Aegis with its AESA radar is a trojen, unless India gets the full source code. Let US provide the source code and only then India can consider it a viable sales offer.
I can see the US cringe at it, like sharing JSF F-35 source code <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Will not happen.[/quote]
Its unwise to ask for such things, knowing that LM has spent their billions to develope this ACS and wont part away with that, Spain and Norway use Aegis but they dont have source code. Remember the olden days of coca cola formula row (George Fernandez) and coke was thrown out of India and it (Coke) did not care?
As for trojan horse, you can still find C-130 and P-8I bugged (if they want it to, they can do it), they did the same to Chinese VVIP aircraft too in the past.
The country like USA enforces their EUM (End Use Monitoring provisions required under American law) which among other things include the USAââ¬â¢s Communications and Information Security Memorandum of Agreement that governs how, when, and by whom sensitive information can be shared with India, and even within India, IMO these are very intrusive too. When you deal with USA, this is what you get.
Quote:One of the first court cases regarding the nature of source code as free speech involved University of California mathematics professor Dan Bernstein, who had published on the internet the source code for an encryption program that he created. At the time, encryption algorithms were classified as munitions by the United States government; exporting encryption to other countries was considered an issue of national security, and had to be approved by the State Department. The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the U.S. government on Bernstein's behalf; the court ruled that source code was free speech, protected by the First Amendment.