Re: Re: Mission Creep - Was Re: The new US Army APC the Stinger

> But in the day of automation, paper copies/pdf files etc may be
owned by
> the buyer, whereas SOURCE files (e.g. word, framemaker, publisher,
sgml,
> datamodules etc - anything lending itself to easy adaptation) could
be
> owned by the seller... All depending on the contract you sign.

Yep, I know.  And so do our contractring agents.  For AE military
procurement, normal procedure is that the AE gets the source and
everything related thereunto, then (usually) licenses further
development back to the company that developed the original.