Russian government decides to develop Windows alternative

Hold on to your ushankas, it's "Linuxskaya".....

So that amounts to how much for the decompilers, and how much gets siphoned off by the Russian mob?

Then I suppose they'll turn to "Open Office.orgsky too. :rolleyes:

Microsoft = Богохульство!!!

Seriously though... I agree, i'm surprised our own government uses Microsoft OS's on some of their mission critical systems. I wouldn't trust using it either to run a country either! The Russian Federation has the right idea, and other countries should follow suite. But at the rate we are moving toward socialism here in the States our government may be doing the same thing!

Still, makes you wonder what they may be trying to hide...

In Russia OS runs you XD jking!

The first remark in response to the doubts about the security of a 5 million dollar OS: "Ze security will keep virus out of machine like ushanka keeps snow from head."

Every time something goes wrong instead of beeps or error messages or blue screens you'll just hear Khruschev's voice, "WE WILL BURY YOU!" as your computer powers off.

"Honor to labor, comrade"......

Well yes, but is it still abbreviated, "M$".......?

Or perhaps you might hear Boris Yeltsin belching from acute vodka overdose, as the machine descends into oblivion.

Wow pretty intense plan.

Its a $5m epic fail in the making

Why not wait for the chrome OS to come in? Even i am not happy with Windows anymore. Still using my WinXP OS. MS however have made a mess of their own OS to give a different appeal. It is also very poor in hardware implementation like it applies a lot of restrictions & compatibility base on hw. It is also very expensive to own being one of the core thing in a PC. They should realize that not all Indians here are rich or have the purchasing power to buy them unlike US or other developed nations. I hope someone takes a not of this and comes out with the best alternatives and at very affordable price. Hope google does it some day with ability to run all the Win apps on them

Just because the Russian government wants to develop an OS, doesn't mean people will actually use it...

Russia never runs out of crysis in one way or another, who needs it on the PC?

This whole idea in itself is screaming trouble, and with a 5-minute cool down perdiod

If the russian government would just round up all the spammers/scripters that routinely email ways to "grow your member" and make them work on it, they could have this done within a year. And the idea that 5 million is gonna get this job done securely is supremely laughable.

Right, but what about the decompiler?

hmmm... While its true that when it comes to security, Windows probably gets the most hits, Its going to be pretty hard to top what windows has... Good luck and god speed i suppose.

They probably feel that the US will be using windows to spy on them and pry top secret documents from their government computers. Sounds realistic actually, haha.

I think creating it would be easy. Any ***** with some Linux knowledge can create a very secure platform. Teaching everyone to use it will be the problem. Most of that money should be pushed into teaching, not creating.

Wow, windows is so dominant!! Its monopoly is such that even the Russians have had to rely on it. Even though the cold war is over, you just know that there's still bad blood between these two 'comrades'.

In soviet Russia. Crysis runs you~!

The comments thread seems to get really full of spam:
"In soviet Russia. Crysis runs you~! "
"Its a $5m epic fail in the making "
"Just because the Russian government wants to develop an OS, doesn't mean people will actually use it... "
And these were just the obvious ones. Even though I am part of it, this contest really devalues the comments thread.

Anyway, back on topic. I think of this as a good iniative; using OSS is a good stimulation for OSS. They may even make good upstream changes.

€3.55 million ? lol. There are lots of distros to choose from. €3.55 million for improving and adapting one is a lot.

If they get the right developers on this project then this could be good. Problem is getting the operating system up and running without bugs and completely secure could take a long time. Windows 8 will probably be out before this!