[ Thanks to Godi for this link.
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The clones of Dos and Linux Red Hat have probably been put on
the list of indigenous operating systems recommended by the Russian
defence ministry “Russian president-elect Vladimir Putin has banned
the use of operating systems and software developed by US software
giant Microsoft by the country’s armed forces and
military-industrial complexes to ensure “information security”,
reports here [Moscow] said. “
“The clones of Dos and Linux Red Hat have probably been put
on the list of indigenous operating systems recommended by the
Russian defence ministry, the agency said, pointing that the
move came amid reports of secret codes and keys integrated in
Microsoft Windows of all versions, which act as ‘bugs’ or ‘back
door’ for the America’s omnipotent National Security Agency to
‘peep’ into the computers of users world-wide.”