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Russia Mandates Free Software For Public Schools 271

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 23, 2008 @12:36PM from the in-soviet-russia-joke-makes-you dept.

Glyn Moody writes "After running some successful pilots, the Russian government has decided to make open source the standard for all schools. If a school doesn't want to use the free software supplied by the government, it has to buy commercial licenses using its own funds. What's the betting Microsoft starts slashing its prices in Russia?"

Comment Re:Also, A DVD player without DVD is not a product (Score 1) 697

by frog99705 on Friday December 15, 2006 @09:30PM (#17264242) Attached to: HP's Windows Bundle Trouble

You could download one of many free Linux (or BSD or other) OS's many of which do not even need to be installed to function. Tell me again, how do you download a free OS from bare computer hardware? Anyway, I wouldn't mind the option of an OS when buying a new computer. Clerk: Would you like configuration files or constant crashes?

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