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In article <104@urban.UUCP> jlr@urban.UUCP (John Lynn Roseman) writes:
>In the USSR today, packaged software is copied freely.  Virtualy 
>all computers are owned by the government, so the official 
>position seems to be that packaged software is in the public 
>domain.  Setting up a company to distribute UNIX would give 
>people and organizations outside of the government access to 
>software that the bureaucracy already has, as well as
>increasing availability to the bureaucracy itself.

According to Clifford Stoll's _The Cuckoo's Egg_, the KGB has obtained
a copy of the Unix source code via those german hackers.

Perhaps the KGB could be kind enough to post it on the net.
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