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Soviets Backed Open Source Software in the '80s?

by El Snatcher

1998-12-17 01:25:00

THIS IS COMPLETELY CRAZY: Check out this news article, which claims that recently-released KGB documents show that, during the 1980s, various Open Source projects, including some developed by the Free Software Foundation, unknowingly received money from the Soviet government totaling more than $175,000!! Is it fake?

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