Глава правительства Владимир Путин подписал план перехода властных структур и федеральных бюджетников на свободное ПО. Согласно документу, внедрение Linux во власти должно начаться во II квартале 2012 г.[Via Google Translate: Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a plan for transition of power structures and the federal budget [to] free software. According to the document, the introduction of Linux in government should begin in II quarter 2012.
Сегодня стало известно, что премьер-министр Владимир Путин подписал документ, в котором описан график перехода властных структур на свободное ПО (СПО).
Документ называется «План перехода федеральных органов власти и федеральных бюджетных учреждений на использование свободного программного обеспечения» и освещает период с 2011 до 2015 г.
Today it became known that Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed a document which describes the timetable for the transition of power structures on free software (OSS).
The document is called a "transition plan of the federal authorities and federal budgetary institutions on the use of free software, and covers the period from 2011 to 2015.]
The key document with that timetable (in Russian) is here; Google's translation of the salient part:
1. Approve the attached plan for the transition of federal executive bodies and agencies of the federal budget for the use of free software for 2011 - 2015 years.The fact that Putin has signed the order for this project could be critical: there have been several previous plans for moving parts of the Russian government to using free software, notably in the educational sector, but in practice they have mostly failed to materialise because there has been insufficient political weight behind them. But if Putin says: "make it so", I suspect that a lot of people will jump pretty fast to make sure that it *is* so. And once that happens, other plans to roll out free software might well suddenly look rather more attractive.
2.Federal executive agencies to implement activities in accordance with the plan approved by this Order, within the established government of the Russian Federation, limiting the size of their staff and budget allocations provided to them in the federal budget execution authority to the specified area of activity.
Prime Minister
The Russian Federation Vladimir Putin
To annihilate the nemesis of human kind aka capitalism(under a name-free market, or another-liberal economy etc) this is a very small step to swtich to a GNU/Linux OS. i was almost hating myself to run windows on my computer, every time a new version of a GNU/linux OS was out I would try it, but I wasn't good enough to overcome the many problems of these early versions. Then one day my stubbornness was rewarded: I tried Mint 7 Gloria and lo it worked right away: sound, printer, videos...because it was based on Ubuntu I later installed Ubuntu. What a huge relief to at last get rid of windows(don't get me wrong I rate S J on the same level as I rate B G). If people knew how great Ubuntu is they would just throw away windows apple...and when you know these two were pirating and cheating genuine researchers, inventors you are just very very happy to throw a finger to them.
Come on you all switch to a GNU/Linux OS, whether Ubuntu or any other: a small stp for a man a huge step for human kind especially if you know that capitalism is the curse of human kind!