Linux is the clear winner out of a dispute between the Russian legal authorities and schools over who should carry the can over the use of pirated Windows software, The Inquirer magazine reports.
Rather than attacking mobsters who peddle pirated copies of Windows directly to companies, the Russian coppers decided to lock up a Sepich headmaster who bought hot Windows software which came from Perm region’s Capital Construction Administration.
Microsoft says that the incident has nothing to do with them, but it appears that Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead.
Schools in the Perm region will soon quit buying software from commercial companies, said the region’s Education Minister Nikolay Karpushin. The announcement was made in line with the report on ensuring ’license purity’ in the region’s schools.
According to Karpushin, schools would start using freely distributed software like the Linux OS, Russky office and Open office desktop apps.
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/02/07/linuxschool.shtmli wonder how much of our local ish is pirated?
back in secondary school, the only thing we had legit was the OS, cuz it was OEM. everythin else was 'bought' with a keygen or crack. lol
perhaps they should do a audit of our schools and compel them to switch to linux, too? lol
yeh .. right..
