Communism

Yap, it did, and the same goes for almost all the tech nowadays. Although, by that I mean ideological bullshit more than anything: crapple, for example, locks you in their fancy walled garden where you're not allowed to even fart in the wrong way; then more globally we have hardware with no schematics available, firmware that verifies that nobody dared to replace broken parts, etc. Heck, as much as I dislike most of the stuff about Soviet Union I adore their tech which (although often ripped off of western models) came with schematics out of the box.

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