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Russia's geek-in-chief
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| As a true geek, Medvedev is probably also not a big fan of Microsoft. While
| the rest of the world has been battling Bill Gates' empire for almost two
| decades, it's only now that Russia has waken up to the challenge and has
| placed the company on a government antitrust watchlist. CNET has more.
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| I wonder if the persecution of Microsoft is somehow related to much-discussed
| plans for the development of a genuine Russian “national open-source
| operating system” that could overtake other open-source projects like Ubuntu.
| Most open-source systems are - how should I put it – already (or still?) very
| hard to use; giving them an extra Russian edge would make them appealing only
| to the small tech-masochist niche – or, perhaps, the Russian bureaucrats who
| are the usual victims of such experiments (in late 1990s, they were all
| complaining about having to drive Russian cars to work). But of course, the
| situation would change dramatically if the Russian geek-in-chief were to ban
| Microsoft from Russia!
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http://neteffect.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/04/03/russias_geek_in_chief_1
Recent:
The Russians Are Coming...
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| [Via Google Translate: The company ALT Linux and OpenGO (Ventox Boundless
| Brasil) announce the opening of the representation of ALT Linux in Brazil.
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| Such a move by the ALT Linux is due to a desire to gather around the
| repository Sisyphus the widest range of developers and is part of a strategy
| to expand the market by other countries...]
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/russians-are-coming.html
Russia Rolls Out Open Source for Government
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| It also published a draft plan of government bodies and agencies to use the
| budget of free software. The project includes a number of actions required
| for the phased introduction of ACT in the Russian government, including the
| training of public servants, a pilot project on introduction of ACT, support
| the development of free software in Russia.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/03/russia-rolls-out-open-source-for.html
Free and Open Source Software to be at the Heart of Russian IT Development
Strategy
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| On February 25th, 2009 the principal of the Ministry of Communications and
| Mass Communications met with representatives of Russian Free and Open Source
| Software (RFOSS) development companies, including VDEL, at the Ministry of
| Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation. The purpose
| of the meeting was to discuss concrete steps that can be taken by the State
| to support RFOSS development process.
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http://news.reriani.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8482
Medvedev Confirms Free Software Support
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| [via Google Translate: President of the Russian Federation as outlined its
| position on free software: «Another issue - this is information technology in
| the social sphere. We actually tried to do so as part of a national project.
| Probably something that succeeded, but for now this is just the beginning. We
| must consider that the next move - to the domestic free software. I dealt
| with this topic, the results we have, we have already prepared their
| programs, which allow to create, in essence, a product is qualitative, based
| on free software, but is already tied to our realities ».]
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/02/medvedev-confirms-free-software-for.html
Company ALT Linux has released a new server distro for schools
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| The set of products developed by ALT Linux in the school project, added a new
| distribution, released under the title "School Server 4.1 and based on
| code-based server distribution for small and medium-sized businesses - ALT
| Linux Office Server, adapted for the educational institutions. Установочный
| образ имеет размер 670 Мб и распространяется свободно. Set the image size is
| 670 MB and is distributed freely.
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http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opennet.ru%2Fopennews%2Fart.shtml%3Fnum%3D20399&sl=auto&tl=en&history_state0=
Russian Federation Commits to Open Source
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| Open source software development in Russia is one of the most important
| directives for Igor Schegolev - the Head of the Ministry of Information
| Technologies and Communications of the Russian Federation. At a key meeting
| with Werner Knoblich, Red Hat Vice President for EMEA, he announced support
| for a Russian Fedora association and for Red Hat development in the Russian
| Federation. He also expressed support for open source infrastructure and
| applications, and the development of a repository for industry best practice.
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/02/prweb1981634.htm
Russia To Develop a National Operating System
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| "According to Russian media, the Russian Government is going to develop a
| National Operating System (Google translation; Russian original) to lower its
| dependencies on foreign software technology licensing. The Russian plan will
| base its efforts on Linux and expects a worldwide impact. Microsoft is also
| involved in the roundtable process that led to the recommendation. The
| Chinese government successfully lowered its Microsoft licensing costs through
| an early investment in a national Linux distribution. I wonder if other large
| markets, such as the European Union, will also develop their own Linux
| distributions or join in the Russian initiative."
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http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09%2F01%2F23%2F1450224&from=rss
ALT Linux 4.1.1 Desktop Released
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| Alexey Rusakov announced on January 14th the immediate availability of the
| desktop edition of ALT Linux 4.1.1 DVD, a general purpose GNU/Linux
| distribution designed to be used on workstations, laptops and netbooks.
| Besides the usual bug fixes and improvements, ALT Linux 4.1.1's most
| important feature is the inclusion of an installation DVD ISO image with
| English as the default language. "ALT Linux proudly presents a new release of
| our desktop distribution, ALT Linux 4.1.1 Desktop. [...] We also released a
| separate DVD with English as the default language so that you don't need to
| crawl through cryptic Russian letters on early steps. Happy using!" -
| Alexey Rusakov said in the official release announcement.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/ALT-Linux-4-1-1-Desktop-Released-102103.shtml
Russia to create "National OS" Based on GNU/Linux?
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| Although the proposal is still in its early stages, the attractiveness of the
| proprosal to a government keen to assert its independence at all levels is
| obvious. It will be interesting to see how this develops.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/01/russia-to-create-national-os-based-on.html
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