Russia to create "National OS" Based on GNU/Linux?
Here's an interesting idea: for Russia to fund the creation of a "national operating system" to replace Windows, based on GNU/Linux:
Domestic IT community has asked the president to support the idea of the operating system. Future developers Russian «national operating system» can get support in the form of federal target programs. In any case, the authors expect this letter to President Dmitry Medvedev, who is now preparing for the State Duma.
Details are still unclear, but the ideas seems to be to build on top of GNU/Linux - described as "open code" here:
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Russia to create "National OS" Based on GNU/Linux?
Talk about the antithesis to FOSS!!
re: Russia
Maybe we could trade Stallman to Russia for a few bottles of cheap vodka.
//yeah, to be fair, we're the ones that would probably have to throw in the vodka to make it a fair trade.