Remember when the Russian supervision confiscated computers from environmental activists, and afterwards fit it by observant they were seeking for unlicensed Microsoft program? And afterwards Microsoft went forward as well as gave the uneven software license to all a NGOs as well as media outlets in the country? And then Putin wrestled an alligator? Well, it seems like the program hulk as well as a land of Dostoevsky and Rasputin have been during cross-purposes for utterly a while right away. Indeed, Glynn Moody’s Open… blog has been tracking the country’s progress in building the own Linux-based Open Source OS (similar to efforts by Cuba as well as North Korea) for a little time, although as of nonetheless it doesn’t look like there has been most success. At any rate, Microsoft Russia boss Nikolai Pryanishnikov doesn’t appear to be threatened by a prospect: “We contingency bear in thoughts that Linux is not the Russian OS,” he is quoted as saying in an article during cnews.ru. “And, moreover, [Linux] is during the finish of the life cycle.” Oh, unequivocally? Please don’t tell Tux just yet… a headlines would break his heart.

Via Engadget