Comment Re:Save money on licences... (Score 1) 374
Can they not just save all the hassle and choose Red Hat / Ubuntu / Debian / SlackWare / Mandriva / anything else
By choosing one of these, they'll be exposing themselves to waiting for releases/bugfixes from 3rd parties. Plus it won't be a standardized choice for russia because all these distros are intended for a generic audience.
You can think of the russian approach as centralizing software releases for the country in the hands of one OS "Tzar"