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Posted Feb 21, 2008 7:54 UTC (Thu) by szh (guest, #23558)
In reply to: "show me the projects" :) by evgeny
Parent article: Alksnis and Ponosov in the front of fighting for Linux (CNews)

> He has no sympathy to the software freedom 

All russian politics have no sympathy to the software freedom. And we need friends among them.
Alksnis was the first, who find out about FOSS and helped us during 2007.

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Posted Feb 24, 2008 8:37 UTC (Sun) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

Helped - in what way exactly ?

Posted Feb 25, 2008 1:04 UTC (Mon) by szh (guest, #23558) [Link]

He wrote several parliament member requests to different government structures including
federal antimonopoly service about microsoft and linux. He tried to bring attention of
parliament and president to the problem of MS domination. Have a look
http://v-alksnis2.livejournal.com/67702.html

And from what happens now, I conclude he succeeded doing proFOSS and antiMS PR among top
government.( http://news.vl.ru/world/2007/09/24/linux/ ;
http://www.itsec.ru/newstext.php?news_id=37570 )

Posted Feb 25, 2008 19:51 UTC (Mon) by muwlgr (guest, #35359) [Link]

Of course you know what kind of people go up high ehough into our post-Soviet politicum. I
think politicians could impact I.T. only in negative ways. Who do you think created
circumstances that have made "Ponosov affair" possible at all ? Microsoft ? Not. It was caused
only by overly-zealous Russian "law" "enforcers".

Without support from the underneath, no initiative from the top would work.
Alksnis, Ponosov and Medvedev all give me only a bitter laugh, each for his own reason. To fix
the formed situation, a single End of World would not be enough.