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You jest, but honestly, if open source accelerated during the peak Cold War and the Soviets leveraged them to own capitalists American software industry, you be
by eunos 2y ago
You jest,
but honestly, if open source accelerated during the peak Cold War and the Soviets leveraged them to own capitalists American software industry, you bet that the US Govt would be hostile to the open source movement.
- suraci 2y agohahaha that would be funny you could be a communist if you open source your project so maybe in that alternative universe, there would be something like close-source-statement instead of open source license, to avoid be accused as a communist
- spamizbad 2y agoThe Soviet Union did exactly that during the cold war - hell it lifted entire semiconductors - but it ultimately amounted to bupkis.
- osullivj 2y agoMy father taught HnD computing in the 70s and 80s at Trent Poly. One of his industry contacts did time for shipping DEC Vax VMS kit to Bulgaria in crates marked "tractor parts"...