The Russian government is planning to build a new operating system (if you are fluent, here’s the original), most likely to be derived from Linux, made especially for the country itself as a whole. This is being done to reduce Russia’s reliance on foreign license agreements, particularly those of Microsoft it seems. The OS is expected to be open source and distributed at little or no cost, but it’s uncertain just how successful this nationwide operating system will be, if indeed it ever comes to fruition. If it’s anything like that Chinese Red Flag enforcement fiasco, count me out.