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<DIV>An interesting read, even if you dont agree with all the
observations.</DIV>
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face=Helvetica><FONT color=#1d2129>“The first global computer network emerged
thanks to capitalists behaving like cooperative socialists, not socialists
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size=3>“Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What
stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet”</FONT></FONT></H2>
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