Alle 14:49, giovedì 9 ottobre 2003, Alex Daniloff ha scritto:
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 10:44 pm, Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
You are wrong in some aspects. For instance, we licensed all M$ products.
Good for you, welcome to civilized world! Then I should ask you. Why your Russian company didn't switch to Linux at once? Is license ransom for BG least expensive in Russia than in US?
But goverment... I know that Russia uses pirated DOS in sattelite management systems :-)
Poor Russian government. I imagine what kind of hardware they use in the satellite control systems if it still runs on DOS...
Some months ago, I read on Slashdot that NASA was buying old 8086 processor to use them on the Shuttle. Why update to modern systems if the old ones are good enough? :) Praise