Linux vs Windows - Conquering a Windows Based World

This snowball started when the police arrested a Sepich headmaster who bought a computer with Windows, that was apparently pirated. So instead of going after the group selling the PC’s they arrested the end user. As you can imagine Schools in the i Perm region are now using Linux rather than Windows for fear of the Gulag.

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, Ekho Moskvi reports.

Nice.