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On Tue, 28 Dec 2010, Paul Sutton wrote:
hI Just found this more by accident while looking at news sites http://mashable.com/2010/12/27/vladimir-putin-free-software-by-2015/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+mashable%2Fyahoo+%28Mashable+Top+Stories+-+Yahoo+News%29 Last bit is interesting, schools have been using free software for a few years, if they want to use proprietary software they have to pay for it out of their own pockets
It hit /. earlier too: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/12/27/2025258 and they link to: http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/12/putin-orders-russian-move-to-gnulinux.html In soviet russia, 2012 is the year of the linux desktop... (Looks like they have a 3-year transition plan)Hmmm.. I studied Russian in school for a year, maybe I ought to brush up on it... Nah... Or Niet if I recall...
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