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Remember when the Russian government confiscated computers from
environmental activists, and then justified it by saying they were
looking for unlicensed Microsoft software? And then Microsoft went
ahead and gave a unilateral software license to all the NGOs and media
outlets in the country? And then Putin wrestled an alligator? Well, it
seems like the software giant and the land of Dostoevsky and Rasputin
have been at cross-purposes for quite a while now. Indeed, Glynn
Moody's Open... blog has been tracking the country's progress in
developing its own Linux-based Open Source OS (similar to efforts by
Cuba and North Korea) for some time, although as of yet it doesn't
look like there has been much success. At any rate, Microsoft Russia
president Nikolai Pryanishnikov doesn't seem to be threatened by the
prospect: "We must bear in mind that Linux is not a Russian OS," he is
quoted as saying in an article at cnews.ru. "And, moreover, [Linux] is
at the end of its life cycle." Oh, really? Please don't tell Tux just
yet... the news would break his heart.
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