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Putin's Internet Czar Wants To Ban Windows On Government PCs

Posted by timothy on from the here's-where-czar-breaks-down-as-a-metaphor dept.

SmartAboutThings writes: The Russian government is allegedly looking to ban Microsoft's Windows operating system, increase taxes on foreign technology companies, develop its homegrown OS and encourage local tech companies to grow. All these proposals comes from German Klimenko, Vladimir Putin's new 'internet czar, as Bloomberg describes him. In a 90-minute interview, Klimenko said forcing Google and Apple to pay more taxes and banning Microsoft Windows from government computers are necessary measures, as he is trying to raise taxes on U.S. companies, thus helping local Russian competitors such as Yandex and Mail.ru.

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  1. Re:Hillary, is that you? by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It looks like we should also continue to invest in education.

    I can reassure you that my local school district got more than their fair share when they misdiagnosed me as mentally retarded and kept the extra funding for special ed for eight years. Never mind that I blew out annual evaluations on the genius side (those were "statistical flukes"). I graduated the eighth grade with a college-level reading comprehension, skipped high school and went to community college. A decade after I graduated with a A.A. degree, I went back to school to learn computer programming, made the college president's list for maintaining a 4.0 GPA in my major, and graduated with an A.S. degree.

    That would be the only "fair" thing to do.

    Even geniuses are not immune to catastrophic brain farts.