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Some European Moves Towards Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the straws-in-the-wind dept.

Readers VE3OGG and FFFFHALTFFFF write in with three pieces of a global picture that is emerging of governments and corporations moving away from Microsoft and towards open source. First, France: the French automaker Peugot Citroen has announced that over the next several years they will be integrating up to 20,000 Novell SUSE desktops as well as 2,500 SUSE servers into their facilities. (Let's hope that, in Novell, Peugeot Citroen hasn't bought a lemon.) Next, Sweden: the Swedish Armed Forces has made a decision to migrate its Windows NT servers to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Finally, Russia. VE3OGG writes: "It would seem that after the recent Russian piracy debacle that could see a school headmaster jailed in a Siberian work camp for purchasing pirated copies of Windows for his school, the Ministry of Education in Russia has decided that the school boards will no longer be purchasing any commercial software."

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  1. Let's boycott all IP of all forms! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Retards.

    They don't seem to grasp the concent of "if you want something you have to pay for it". Without funding, it wouldn't exist in the first place.

  2. Good!! by warnerms · · Score: 0, Troll

    The sooner Microsoft goes away, the better off we will all be.
    I quit using their crappy products at Windows NT, and I really
    don't miss the "Blue Screen of Death", viruses, malware, ...

  3. Good for MS users by DogDude · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm actually glad that Russian schools aren't going to buy MS products. I hope they don't still use them. Why? The #1 place that all of those nasty works, viruses, scams, etc. come out of is Russia. They have a culture of "Take whatever you can, however you can". I would be thrilled to see some of these Russian hacker kids beating away on Linux over the next few years. Let's spread around some of the pain.

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    I don't respond to AC's.
  4. Umm... by JesterXXV · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since when is Russia in Europe?

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    Yo mama so fake, she failed the Turing Test.
  5. Russian Programmers for the Next Generation by locokamil · · Score: 0, Troll

    Remember this day, because it's the day that Russia starts breeding a second generation of programmers far, far ahead of anything our broken school sytem can ever produce.