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Russian President Interested In Funding ReactOS

Posted by Unknown on 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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  1. Hey, big things have started this way by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The entire Soviet space program (and, arguably, the American one too) supposedly came out of a brief meeting about ICBM's in 1953 where Sergei Korolev pitched his bigger idea for a space program to Khrushchev.

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
  2. And yet another summary gone wrong. by Pi1grim · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Really? Enthusiastic? President said that it is a very good and promising thing (considering a hight school student told him they were developing a free OS that could replace windows and keep old windows programs working) and made a joke that he does not have a million dollars in his pocket, but "he will think about it". You all know what this means/