Schools moved towards opensource
The program for delivery of licensed software to schools developed by the Ministry of Communications and Telecommunications was criticized by the Ministry of Economic Development. For the state (which is obvious) it is cheaper to purchase free software, although, according to the assurances of the developers of opensource products, it will not be possible to transfer all schools to it quickly.
On April 28, the Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Andrei Sharonov, sent a letter to the Ministry of Finance in which he stated that the measures proposed by the Ministry of Communications were threatening to create a monopoly position of suppliers, primarily Microsoft, on the Russian market.
According to the estimates of the Ministry of Information Technologies, Linux systems plus office software packages will cost the government 150 rubles per PC per year, and annual expenses for the purchase and support of Windows 353 rubles per PC (including MS Office, MS Visual Studio and MS Front Page). ). But, having stopped the choice on Linux, the state will have to spend another 50 million rubles to develop a separate version of the operating system that takes into account the peculiarities of the educational process in Russian schools, a ministry official warns.
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Nevertheless, the process moves in the direction of opensource, and it becomes clear why the secret services organized the case of Alexander Ponosov.
via Vedomosti
On April 28, the Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade, Andrei Sharonov, sent a letter to the Ministry of Finance in which he stated that the measures proposed by the Ministry of Communications were threatening to create a monopoly position of suppliers, primarily Microsoft, on the Russian market.
According to the estimates of the Ministry of Information Technologies, Linux systems plus office software packages will cost the government 150 rubles per PC per year, and annual expenses for the purchase and support of Windows 353 rubles per PC (including MS Office, MS Visual Studio and MS Front Page). ). But, having stopped the choice on Linux, the state will have to spend another 50 million rubles to develop a separate version of the operating system that takes into account the peculiarities of the educational process in Russian schools, a ministry official warns.
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Nevertheless, the process moves in the direction of opensource, and it becomes clear why the secret services organized the case of Alexander Ponosov.
via Vedomosti
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/8043/
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