Re:My understanding of FOSS in Russia (Score 1)

I'm living in Russia too. Report of Linux use for issuing passports is a nice surprise for me. While Linux and BSD are not rare among grass-roots projects, you can hardly point to them in the commercial installations. Before one rushes in with a handful of counter examples - will you please check with recruiting agencies demand for Linux specialists besides masters-of-all-trade. What really amuses me - someone took seriously that PR BS. This government (and the one before that and another one...) can only waste money regardless of project they finance. Examples: small one - "School portal" (in Russian - http://oip-ru.livejournal.com/60811.html), bigger ones - ALL the so-called "National Projects" announced by Putin. You say corruption - I say, there's something besides corruption which makes this story. This State is totally ignorant 1.about this country 2.about technologies 3.consequentally - about any connections between those two. So I ask myself - why any native Russian should have any hopes for this particular thing? For nor-Russians: some nice looking politician makes him publicity and tries maybe (only maybe) carve some state budget money for something (which has no name and no scope) - between 200k$ and 1.5M$ - not a big deal anyway by any standard, and definitely a doomed affair. Calm down men and let's get back to business.