Russian government considers switching to Linux

The russian government has reported being contemplando let go of Microsoft Windows and adopt Linux as operating system for government agency PCs according to the new internet czar, the German klimenko, who ensures that Russian financial and media companies they will consider moving all their networks off the Microsoft platform to an unspecified Linux distribution.

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They all have their sights on the German klimenko, appointed as an internet adviser by Putin six weeks ago, who in an interview with Bloomberg, described by him as "a 90 minute interview peppered with swear words" klimenko I declare that Google and Apple should be forced to pay more taxes and a ban on the use of Microsoft Windows from government computers they are necessary measures that are best explained in terms of economy and marital infidelity.

"We are raising the cow and they are the ones who milk it" Klimenko, who has not had time to enter his Kremlin office, said in Moscow at the headquarters of his Internet group, which includes blogging and statistics services.

Klimenko, 49, is lobbying for increase taxes on US companies and thus help level the playing field for Russian competitors, such as Yandex and Mail.ru.

Putin's adviser already has a ally in parliament: Andrey Lugovoy, one of two former KGB agents accused by a UK judge of murdering former agent Alexander Litvinenko, a vocal Putin critic in London during 2006.

Lugovoy became a legislator after Litvinenko's poisoning, always denying that this was due to irregularities, he is the one who sponsors a bill where a value added tax of 18% to 300 billion rubles ($ 3,9 billion) what they get as income Google, Apple and other companies foreign as current profit.

This bill lists a dozen categories of digital products and services in which the National companies currently pay VAT, but foreigners for the most part do notincluding advertisements, games, movies, and marketplace transactions in the cloud.

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According to Klimenko «When you buy an application from Google Play or the App Store anywhere in Europe, VAT is applied at the place of payment, but not here in our banana country »

The proposed modification of the tax code is one of the points in debate by legislators seeking new sources of income to cover the fiscal deficit six years as the collapse in oil prices and sanctions by Ukraine have helped prolong the worst recession since Putin came to power in 2000.

But last but not least, the Kremlin's problems with Silicon Valley go far beyond finances. In a country where the president has asked that The Internet is a "CIA project," since there is a deep mistrust of US companies that comply with the wishes of their government as well as those of their shareholders.

Google, for example, that you can perform a tracking "everything", responds to 32.000 requests a year from US forces, but it does not respond to one of Russia, according to Klimenko. "We have to look at this as a kind of potential threat to our national security," he said.

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Even with all these controversial statements Google, Apple and Microsoft declined to comment.

After returning to the presidency in 2012 amid the largest protests of his government, Putin moved to tighten his grip on the Internet, by passing a law that introduced new restrictions on blogging that forced popular writers to register with a watchdog. Putin also wants Internet companies to store all personal data collected from Russian users on servers located in the interior of the country.

Microsoft, Google and other companies Americans «they reached the point of no return"When they determined sanctions for the annexation of Crimea, by stopping all business with the peninsula, according to Klimenko. As a result, Russia is 'inevitable' shifting state networks from Windows to Linux-based open source system, a movement of 22.000 municipal governments are prepared to do immediately according to Klimenko's explanations.

"It's like when a wife sees her husband with another woman - he can swear that nothing has happened, but trust is lost", Klimenko said, also stated that «the way it has restricted in North Korea or China on firewalls it probably doesn't fit us, but it's only a matter of time », «It will not be fatal for us if Google leave Russia - Yandex and Mail.ru have similar technologies. »


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  1.   Alexander TorMar said

    great news from tech optics for redhat or canonical or suse

  2.   zetaka01 said

    The truth is, if the Russian government / any government considers doing something, I will run away. I don't trust anything not free. You guys with your supposed Linux mentality are trying to sell us this crap, come on
    Greetings.

  3.   zetaka01 said

    Ah yes, very sweaty, be careful, I'm Venezuelan but not an asshole, engineer doctor zetaka01, and with many masters

  4.   zetaka01 said

    Excuse me, I say goodbye to such garbage, I don't know who anyone is and I'm not interested.
    You can remain inbred and alone.

  5.   Paul kelsey said

    The Venezuelan government strives to create the Canaima GNU / linux system, and more and more people are formatting it to install Windows7

  6.   Samantha cruz said

    What Vladimir Putin has been doing seems correct to me, Russia has been reaping successes and one of them is clearly Syria, where the USA had to twist its hand before the power of Russia. Impressive what Russia did in a few months against the terrorists, compared to the USA and its allies in two years.
    Russia and GNU / Linux, great team.