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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by HideousKojima on Thursday April 24, 2025 @02:39PM (#43786005)
>Every single country in the world that is on metric today had to switch from something else at some point in the past. Why overfocus so much on UK when you have literally a hundred successful examples?

A huge percentage of those countries didn't have established industrial bases, infrastructure, etc. And also no educated general populace that needed reeducating. And often those countries were effectively forced into adopting metric through colonization and/or invasion.

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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by int_19h on Friday April 25, 2025 @02:57AM (#43790926)
Even then, that still leaves most of Europe.
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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) by HideousKojima on Saturday April 26, 2025 @01:04PM (#43805274)
Most of whom made the switch in the 1800s, prior to widespread industrialization
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