Pepe Escobar: Russia Won, US Lost, Deal With It

Corruption, Government, Idiocy, Ineptitude, Military, Peace Intelligence
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Pepe Escobar

You Say You Want a (Russian) Revolution?

His key takeway: “There is no parity between Russia and the United States in such fields as air-defense, hypersonic weapons and, in general, missile development, to name just a few fields – the United States lags behind in these fields, not just in years but in generations [italics mine].”

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Stephen E. Arnold: Will Amazon Face an Open Source Anti-Trust Lawsuit?

Commercial Intelligence
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Open Source: A Good to Be Exploited?

Is Amazon Web Services taking undue advantage of open source software, or is it simply giving its users what they want (or perhaps both)? It seems to be a matter of perspective. ZDNet reports, “AWS Hits Back at Open-Source Software Critics: Claims that AWS is Strip-Mining Open-Source Software is ‘Silly and Off-Base,’ Says Exec.” The defense is in response to a piece (paywalled) in the New York Times in which open-source creators complained the company takes the liberty of freely integrating their work into its profitable platform. Writer Liam Tung specifies:

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