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Re:Who controls glibc? by sevensor on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @09:37AM (#17020769)
I'm going to... stick my neck out... and venture that republics have usually got rid of their monarchs.
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Re:Who controls glibc? by labster on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:25PM (#17025297)
Har har, yeah, point taken, but many constitutional monarchies are de facto republics. The UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, Norway. I was trying to distinguish from the hereditary monarchies that aren't republican, like the People's Democratic Republic of Korea.
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Re:Who controls glibc? by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @05:32PM (#17025372)
> Har har, yeah, point taken, but many constitutional monarchies are de facto republics.

No, they are just representative democracies. Which aren't coextensive with republics: you can be either without being the other.

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