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Re:The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsus... by gruppe_sechs on Friday November 17, 2023 @08:07AM (#38302941)
You forgot the part where the central planners herded millions of people into Gulags, starved tens of millions more to death, then executed a few million more for good measure.

Other than that, spot on though.

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Re:The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsus... by selimthegrim on Friday November 17, 2023 @10:54AM (#38305254)
GULAG is an acronym for a state organ, it can’t be pluralized.
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Re:The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsus... by gruppe_sechs on Friday November 17, 2023 @11:10AM (#38305498)
Maybe in the original Russian, but the English word "gulag" can refer to an individual camp and not just the organisation that ran them: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/gulag
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Re:The Lack of Compensation in Open Source Software Is Unsus... by mistrial9 on Friday November 17, 2023 @01:03PM (#38307400)
you mean like the Plains Indians in America? yeah, ugly.. they "solved war" that way.. Almost all the "great nations" of the modern times did exactly that to minority language groups, at some stage of development. Many Wrongs Do Not Make It Right -- it is what happened, however. I would add that many genocides occurred in the longer time frame of history, which is the alternative to mass forced migrations, in the eyes of the Great Powers.
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