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[News] Free Software is Growing in Russia, Milan City Council Sells Out

  • Subject: [News] Free Software is Growing in Russia, Milan City Council Sells Out
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 03:22:26 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Freelance
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Open Source Market: FOSS getting hot in Russia

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| Recent interest towards FOSS from the Russian government has boosted 
| commercial activity in this field. No longer than a year ago there was no 
| single large company that would say it is capable of doing FOSS system 
| integration projects. Now there are three, and the number will probably grow.   
| 
| Nobody is particularly sure about how to do business with FOSS, but it is 
| already evident that it can be done somehow. That is why the larger ones are 
| jumping on the bandwagon simply not to be late.  
`----

http://robertogaloppini.net/2008/03/12/open-source-market-foss-getting-hot-in-russia/

Comune di Milano = Microsoft's Mugs

,----[ Quote ]
| Here's an extraordinary - and extraordinarily depressing - story from Stefano 
| Maffulli about the Comune di Milano (roughly the Milan city council) pushing 
| to its citizens some free services from Microsoft for, er, free...  
`----

http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/03/comune-di-milano-microsofts-mugs.html


Related:

2010: Russia's open software market to grow 4-fold

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| Analysts note that Linux vendors are traditionally present on the mobile
| device market. According to forecasts the OS might become the leader in
| the segment accounting for 40% of it by 2010. ?Currently the share of
| mobile devices with Linux OS is not big in Russia as compared to other
| countries, such as China, for instance. However, the producer's policy,
| Nokia in particular testifies to the fact the situation is changing
| for the better", Ms. Karaeva concluded.
`----

http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/05/15/249978


Mandriva Linux selected as "Product of the Year 2007" at the Russian Softool
event

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| Mandriva has been selected as 'Product of the Year 2007' in the Linux 
| category at the Softool exhibition in Moscow. The 'Product of the Year 2007' 
| competition was held by the department of information technologies and 
| computing systems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Federal Agency of 
| Information Technologies, the publishing house SK Press, and IT-expo.    
| 
| [...]
| 
| Mandriva Linux will also soon be certified by the Federal Service of Export 
| and Technical Control, allowing public sector agencies and organizations 
| dealing with confidential information to use Mandriva Linux.  
`----

http://www.linuxlookup.com/2007/nov/19/mandriva_linux_selected_as_product_of_the_year_2007_at_the_russian_softool_event


Russian public agencies choose Mandriva

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| Mandriva development is carried out jointly by Mandriva's offices in Russia, 
| France and Brazil. The Mandriva Linux OS is thus considered a national OS for 
| Russia. The decision of FSTEC of the Russian Federation (RF) implied that 
| Russian public agencies will be authorised to use the Mandriva Linux OS on 
| PCs running confidential information.    
`----

http://www.mandriva.com/company/press/pr/russian_public_agencies_choose_mandriva


Russian Government Will Migrate to OpenSource

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| Russia decided to follow after EU countries, where opensource
| solutions are more spread then in Russia. Currently, some Russian
| companies can offer their own Desktop Linux OS (the major companies
| are ASPLinux, ALTLinux, Linux-Online and LinuxCenter).
`----

http://danays.blogspot.com/2006/12/russian-government-will-migrate-to.html


Russian schools abandon Windows after piracy scare 

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| Microsoft says that the incident has nothing to do with them, but it 
| appears that Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped 
| off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead.
| 
| [..]
| 
| According to Karpushin, schools would start using freely distributed
| software like the Linux OS, Russky office and Open office desktop apps,
| Ekho Moskvi reports.
`----

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37460


Linux Education in America: Inspiration from Russia?

,----[ Quote ]
| The reason that the Russian announcement is funny boils down to the 
| perception over the years that Russia equates to totalitarianism, whilst here 
| in America we're all about Freedom and innovation. Yet our educational 
| system -- the very underpinnings of how we're growing out future 
| technological talent, is based upon the inversion of what one would expect 
| given the respective reputations of both countries.     
`----

http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/93171/index.html


Russia is latest country to move towards OpenDocument format and open standards  

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| The stated rationale for this legislation is that “open standards will 
| contribute to an increased number of bidders for government contracts and 
| will increase opportunities for Russian software developers... [and] the 
| problem of interoperability will be addressed as will the ability to access 
| information into the future.”    
`----

http://www.itrportal.com/absolutenm/templates/article-docsoft.aspx?articleid=4410&zoneid=57


Russian Linux (ALTLinux) to be installed in every school in Russia

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| Russian OS is to be installed on every school computer in Russia by 2009. 
| Furthermore, every pupil will get the opportunity to operate the applied 
| software produced in Russia, Leonid Reiman, acting Minister of Communication 
| stated at a press conference. According to Mr. Reiman, that might 
| significantly reduce Russian dependence on foreign software.    
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http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007%2F09%2F14%2F266177


Linux being launched at schools

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| Besides the operating system the package is to comprise some freely 
| distributed programs, close to MS Office by their functionality, which are to 
| be used on computers with the following characteristics: 233 MHz and 128MB 
| DDR.   
`----

http://eng.cnews.ru/news/top/indexEn.shtml?2007/10/25/272200

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