MG23, thanks for a bit of reason injected into this, for those that have their eyes shut, fingers in ears, yelling eurocannard. I think they are a bit miffed that europe is soon to be out the market of building their own tier 1 fighters.
The only thing I would point out to you is from ORAC's link below your post, that they didn't or refused to understand.
" the real key for the F-35 program is a Lockheed Martin-designed software middleware that enables experts to upgrade COTS hardware and software without rewriting millions of lines of code. “We built the middleware to protect us so we can make changes without overhauling the software code,” Branyan says."