[governance] How the Soviets invented the Internet and why it didnt work

[John Levine]

In article <3963C714461049FFAFAE8198FAFC9533 at LAPTOP93L8QKEK> you write:
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>An interesting read, even if you dont agree with all the observations.
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>“The first global computer network emerged thanks to capitalists behaving like cooperative socialists, not socialists behaving like
>competitive capitalists." 
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>“Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation. What stalemated them is now fracturing the global internet”

When I got to the place on the first page where he said that 80% of
Russian males born in 1923 didn't survive the war, I didn't bother
reading any farther.

That number is completely wrong (the actual number is about 67%, but
50% of that 67% were dead before the war started due to bad sanitation
and famine).  If the author can't be bothered to check his facts,
neither can I.

R's, 
John

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