Russia To Develop a National Operating System

Posted by kdawson on Friday January 23, 2009 @04:48AM from the cutting-the-cord dept.

Elektroschock writes "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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Re:In Soviet russia by Selfbain · 2009-01-23 05:30 · Score: -1, Troll

Look this joke is very simple. If it doesn't make sense when you reverse it, you're doing it wrong. If we reverse your joke we get: You operate system.

Fail.

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Well, it has never been successfully tested.
Re:In Soviet russia by jo42 · 2009-01-23 06:50 · Score: -1, Troll

In Soviet russia
FAIL.
There is no more Soviet Russia.
Stupid geeks.