"It's good news that Red Hat has had the opportunity to
talk to senior government officials about open source - in this
case, at the ministry of communications - but what's much more
important are the specifics mentioned in the story:
"[The meeting discussed a wide range of issues related to market
development of free software (ACT) and its practical applications
in existing systems. Separately, the importance of establishing a
Russian community of developers Russian Fedora, which could serve
as a step toward the creation of the domestic operating system. The
Minister noted: «We believe that the intellectual potential
of Russian experts is that Russia can not only build, but a
full-fledged development of the code».]
