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I played this in my head a few times and don’t get it.

I assume we are talking

- China - maybe South Korea? - US (or is US not one of the 4?) - Russia (ok this is explicit)

I think there might be an interesting idea in here but there is some confusion that’s stopping it coming out

Can someone enlighten me?

You're completely right, I mistakenly left out the US so I'm going to edit it in. If you include the US, it's five. The first two are of course trivially correct. I'm leaving them unnamed in the hope that those who write all-knowingly about this topic yet can't instantly name them might realize they don't know much about software sovereignty in the first place.

The third one is definitely a notch lower than the others, as I noted. But still IMO noticeably higher than the other 196. The point still stands if you don't count them.

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