Putin to put Russian government on Linux by 2015

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 28, 2010 6:50 PM EDT
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin [cq] has ordered government agencies there to open-source software by 2015, according to translated documents. Putin's order, signed this month, follows news reports from October saying the Russian government was planning to drop Microsoft products in favor of a national open-source operating system based on Linux.

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