[Gllug] [Very OT] Is Saddam a Linux fan?

Wed Feb 26 21:22:16 UTC 2003

On 22 Feb 2003, Simon Morris said:
> The day to day running of a Middle Eastern country the size of Iraq must
> require a massive IT infrastructure

Why? Its societal complexity is considerably below, e.g. Imperial
England --- or for that matter Imperial Rome or the Russia of the Czars.

None of them had a `massive IT infrastructure', just those flexible
computational engines, human beings.

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