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Re:Russia says its businesses can steal patents from anyone ... by fpoling on Thursday March 10, 2022 @03:17PM (#30631874)
In seventies Soviet Union decided to stop developing own computers and just copy IBM and Intel. With big delays 8086 was copied. Then Intel released 286. Soviet intelligence was able to get all documents and blueprints for that processor. Yet Soviet industry failed to copy that.

So I doubt that parents will be of any use for Russia.

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Re:Russia says its businesses can steal patents from anyone ... by zelon88 on Thursday March 10, 2022 @05:24PM (#30633381)
And once the hardware gets copied what are they going to run on it? Is the entire country going to switch to some homebrew Linux distribution?

If Microsoft would just brick every Windows device (revoke license agreement) and block Github in Russia; it would be akin to wiping the majority of the computers in Russia. This conflict would be over in days. Russia would have to surrender via carrier pigeon.

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