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Countries with highly regulated economies dominated by state-run businesses will often make this a condition of winning a government contract. In the sense of, if you want to provide the OS and productivity suite to all of our government offices, you must hand over the source code for “inspection”. When the contract is re-bid in 10 years, you lose out to the new government-owned software company,


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