Comment Re:Russia and the GPL (Score 1) 242
I really think that it would be no russian national OS. It would not survive in competition with other popular distributions.
You Are Not a Lawyer 693
Paul Ohm is starting a new "very occasional" feature on the Freedom To Tinker blog called You Are Not a Lawyer — "In this series, I will try to disabuse computer scientists and other technically minded people of some commonly held misconceptions about the law (and the legal system)." In the first installment, Ohm walks through the reasons why many techies' faith in the presence of "reasonable doubt" is so misplaced. "When techies think about criminal law, and in particular crimes committed online, they tend to fixate on [the 'beyond a reasonable doubt'] legal standard, dreaming up ways people can use technology to inject doubt into the evidence to avoid being convicted. I can't count how many conversations I have had with techies about things like the 'open wireless access point defense,' the 'trojaned computer defense,' the 'NAT-ted firewall defense,' and the 'dynamic IP address defense.' ... People who place stock in these theories and tools are neglecting an important drawback. There are another set of legal standards — the legal standards governing search and seizure — you should worry about long before you ever get to 'beyond a reasonable doubt.'"
Comment Re:Now that Red Hat are dealing with the russians (Score 1) 242
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.
Comment Re:Russia and the GPL (Score 1) 242
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.
Comment Re:For the sake of god! (Score 1) 242
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.
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