Putin Orders Russian Move to GNU/Linux

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.

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

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