Linux To Be Installed In Every Russian School

J_Omega writes "According to an article from last week at the Russian IT site CNews, Linux is slated to be installed in every Russian school by 2009. The article makes it appear that it will be going by the (unimaginative) name 'Russian OS.' As stated in the article: 'The main aim of the given work is to reduce dependence on foreign commercial software and provide education institutions with the possibility to choose whether to pay for commercial items or to use the software, provided by the government.' Initial testing installations are supposed to begin next year in select districts. Is 2008/09 the year of Linux on the (Russian) desktop?"

Comments

those poor sods - too poor for a real computer

[Fluk3]

linux desktop and communism are a good mach though - citizens are miserable, but pretend to be proud - and it is doomed to fail miserably

Re:Open Source Really Is Like Communism Now

[jez9999]

Open-source is succeeding.

So is Islamist terrorism. :-)