all these jokes about soviet Russia are already boring, in Russia there are no jokes about US and EU, btw.
About Nikolai - he is very interesting and clever man, I know him by myself, and these words are just a marketing step,or maybe you think different? (:
BTW looks like yellow press, is it really/.?
Nowadays we still have a lot of corruption in Russia. Everything is very easy: buying MS products requires a lot of money and nobody will notice stealing couple of million dollars, but open source software (OSS) costs nothing and stealing money becomes more complicated, so people interested in stealing makes a lot of problems for OSS introduction to schools.
So, his is not a technical problem.
First of all jokes about communism and Red OS are not funny (here), we fed of them a lot, really. It was finished 18 years ago, maybe enough?
Really "red" meant "beautiful" about 2 centuries ago in russian. Borsch is very tasteful! (:
Russian linux community has a lot of discussions about this theme. A lot of people think that most effective action is spending money on current russian open source developers to improve international software. Of course we need better localizations in some cases. In my point of view it's the best way, but..
Government need to see a real result, such as rusisian OS, so as I think, they would not spend money on current developers and try to create new team with it's own distribution, or, maybe, to spend money on one of current russian distributions (ALT Linux is the likely one, as I see).
Windows is really looks like free OS now here, about 95% of home users have pirate version. I think something should be done and linux is the best way.
Actually nobody knows here (except government:) what this OS will look like: will it be just another linux distro, or will it be OS based on linux, but with closed sources. Everybody understand it will not be a new OS, it's really impossible.
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all these jokes about soviet Russia are already boring, in Russia there are no jokes about US and EU, btw. About Nikolai - he is very interesting and clever man, I know him by myself, and these words are just a marketing step,or maybe you think different? (: BTW looks like yellow press, is it really /.?
Nowadays we still have a lot of corruption in Russia. Everything is very easy: buying MS products requires a lot of money and nobody will notice stealing couple of million dollars, but open source software (OSS) costs nothing and stealing money becomes more complicated, so people interested in stealing makes a lot of problems for OSS introduction to schools. So, his is not a technical problem.
Hey guys, here is my point of view from Russia: