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It would be like the Ford Escort. The code would be written in China, India and COsta Rica for all we know, but the cardboard box the vendor sold it in would be made in the US, hence it would be an American product.

Practically all vehicles today have components made in various countries. Take the Ford Explorer. The 4.0L V6 engine in that vehicle is made in Germany.

On the other hand BMW uses GM transmissions (presumably made in the USA) in some of their cars.

And, of course, the car radio in either of those is likely to be made in Mexico.

But those are subsidiaries...just tax them too. YO\ou are goin to see budgetary descrepencies. These are public companies...they have to file with the SEC. I am saying follow the money...do not follow the code. Besides, it is really hard to hide things in a CMMI level 5 shop. All of the metrics, the configuration management, the requirements management, architecture documentation, etc. would give it away. If it did not then they could not get their certification. A board would be whacky to sign of on a shop that was not CMMI or ISO certified, and whackier still to not control the configuration/QA management as the vendor would just resell the code. Both the legal risk and the market risk ould not be worth it.