Topic: Russia's Open Source Revolution

[sam]

WHAT does Microsoft do when someone says: No, sorry, we do not want to use your software any more. If that someone is a small business operating in an increasingly cut-throat world, a great deal of pressure can be brought to bear on them to fall into line.

But what if that someone is a whole nation, and that whole nation happens to be a world superpower with the resources and will to forge its own, alternative route to technological competitiveness?

http://reddevil62-techhead.blogspot.com/2008/10/russias-open-source-revolution.html

[Simon]

Not sure I'd trust anything from Russia! 

[Rik]

Except gas, maybe.

[Clive]

Not sure I'd trust anything from Russia! 

Quite right.  It will be full of spyware!