Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday September 14, 2011 @03:05AM from the reactions-are-mixed dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When Russian President Dmitri Medvedev recently visited a high school where ReactOS developer Marat Karatov happens to study, Karatov took the opportunity to present the open-source Windows-a-like to the President, and got a rather more enthusiastic reaction than might be expected — the President found the project interesting, and would consider funding it." Be forewarned that the BBC article takes a few statements by the developers about boot time and compatibility out of context.

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Sheesh by Quiet_Desperation · 2011-09-14 03:55 · Score: 1, Funny

Putin left the back door open, and Dmitri got out again.
Re:Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-14 04:21 · Score: 3, Funny

Not being able to run Internet Explorer is a feature.
Re:Let the patent war begin by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2011-09-14 04:49 · Score: 3, Funny

Any printer that doesn't speak Postscript or PCL is just a stepper-motor donor waiting to happen...
Re:3... 2... 1... by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-14 04:59 · Score: 2, Funny

Crash fest? looks like they're doing very well at cloning windows...