Looking forward to see this in Nepal. On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 2:44 PM, Bibek Paudel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > One post I enjoyed reading very much in many days: > > http://reddevil62-techhead.blogspot.com/2008/10/russias-open-source-revolution.html > I hope you will too. Enjoy ! > > Excerpts: > > "What happens when someone says, "no, sorry, we do not want to use > your software any more" and 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? > ..... > the headmaster of a village school in Sepych, in the Perm region of > Russia, was arrested for running unlicensed copies of Microsoft > software on his school's computers. It has been reported that no less > than Vladimir Putin himself intervened to get the charges thrown out; > had he not, Posonov was facing up to five years in jail...... > .... > Rather than pay massive licensing costs to legitimise the country's > Microsoft software, then deputy prime minister (now President) Dmitry > Medvedev decided on an altogether more radical route - to use Open > Source, Linux-based software in all Russia's schools." > > Cheers ! > Bibek > > > > -- With Regards, Suraj Sapkota सुरज सापकोटा --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
