I really think that it would be no russian national OS. It would not survive in competition with other popular distributions.

There is no Soviet Russia today even if your government says you the opposite. Any government never tells all the truth to citizens. "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell And anyway don't be preconceived to people you have never met before. No racism, please.

ALTLinux developers always made this. They've got many interesting and qualified ideas. I've met one of their programmers and he told me about their automated "jailed" distribution and rmp-packets building, for exapmle. Many people, who use free software in our country really respect GPL, BSD and other licenses. And Putin doesn't take a part in developing software. =\ p.s. Mass media DISinformation agency in our counties work qiet well, I see.

BTW, ALTLinux had won a tender to develop and support distribution for schools and universities. Anyway in my university we have already been using linux for years. For now it's fedora on clients PCs :) but it would be replaced soon due to our new cluster distro. We haven't decided for now what distribution would it be.