Linux will not go to school

Today, many were agitated by an article in Vedomosti about a letter from the Ministry of Economic Development, which criticized the idea of ​​the Ministry of Communications to purchase licensed software in Russian schools and suggested instead switching to open source software. But did anyone really think that common sense will triumph in our country in a question worth 3.7 billion ? He-he ...
We read the message from Prime-Tass: “The Ministry of Economic Development is ready to agree on the proposals of the Ministry of Information Technologies for providing Russian schools with licensed software. Representatives of the Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications explained to the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade responsible for coordinating proposals that providing all Russian schools with licensed software from various manufacturers - including Microsoft, Adobe, Corel, Borland and others - meets the current realities of the information technology market. As a result, the representatives of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade agreed that the position of this department, expressed earlier ... (in the letter itself, note Habrahabr) requires a long enough time to be realized . ”

Of course, the most serious argument in this dispute was the assignment of our chief specialist in the development of budgets for national projects. “At the present time, as the representative of the Ministry of Information Technologies has stressed, the most urgent is the task of fulfilling the instructions of First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to prepare in May coordinated proposals for the centralized provision of schools with licensed software.”