alt Hacker News> Why do you want the people risking their lives to protect your freedom to have worse artillery
If better artillery is being built on open source tech then everyone has better artillery. Not just the people "protecting you" but also the people trying to kill those people
> If better artillery is being built on open source tech then everyone has better artillery.
Only if the end product is released as open source or even source available, which in many cases (all?) it has not been.
(This has never been done with a Linux based artillery system to my knowledge, of which there are MANY)