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Russia's Open Source Revolution

reddevil62-techhead.blogspot.c… — Rather than pay massive licensing costs to legitimise the country's Microsoft software, then deputy prime minister (now President) Dmitry Medvedev decided on an altogether more radical route - to use Open Source, Linux-based software in all Russia's schools.

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  • skmice2, on 10/19/2008, -0/+5That's where it needs to start - at schools! It may be expensive, but it's (imho) the best way how to raise common awareness in the long-run.

    Wish this was happening in my country's school system ... I was aware about GNU/Linux from the web, but I didn't hear even a single mention about it in school before end of high school (and even that was only a brief note).
  • inactive, on 10/19/2008, -0/+2In Soviet Russia, kernel compiles YOU!
  • astro900, on 10/20/2008, -0/+1I love it!
    Go, Linux, go!

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