Comments on: Linux defeats Microsoft in Russian schools http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17382 p2pnet.net - reader powered Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:23:46 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17382/comment-page-1#comment-863662 Reader's Write Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:46:17 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17382#comment-863662 Original here: ht tp://w ww.cnew s.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2008/10/24/324624 Original here:

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]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17382/comment-page-1#comment-863659 Reader's Write Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:43:53 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17382#comment-863659 At the same time.... http://www.theotherrussia.org/2008/10/27/the-great-russian-firewall/ "RUSSOFT, a trade association of the largest software companies in Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus, has come forward with a new proposal to separate the Russian internet from the rest of the world. The group’s president, Valentin Makarov, told the CNews internet newspaper that a funnel could readily be created to control the flow of information through Russia’s online borders. " Their role models? China, Singapour and Japan. At the same time….

http://www.theotherrussia.org/2008/10/27/the-great-russian-firewall/

“RUSSOFT, a trade association of the largest software companies in Russia, the Ukraine and Belarus, has come forward with a new proposal to separate the Russian internet from the rest of the world. The group’s president, Valentin Makarov, told the CNews internet newspaper that a funnel could readily be created to control the flow of information through Russia’s online borders. ”

Their role models? China, Singapour and Japan.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17382/comment-page-1#comment-863026 Reader's Write Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:57:25 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/17382#comment-863026 "Microsoft, the company owned by famous philanthropist Bill Gates, discovered a Russian schoolteacher was using non-Microsoft software at school." No! Investigators discovered pirated MS software on new purchased PCs and decided to press charges against Ponosov, the principal of the school. No one touched the firm who supplied the PCs and installed the pirated MS software in the first place. “Microsoft, the company owned by famous philanthropist Bill Gates, discovered a Russian schoolteacher was using non-Microsoft software at school.”

No!

Investigators discovered pirated MS software on new purchased PCs and decided to press charges against Ponosov, the principal of the school. No one touched the firm who supplied the PCs and installed the pirated MS software in the first place.

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