Putin ordered authorities to switch to open source software

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has signed a plan to use open source software in state agencies and organizations operating with the Russian Federation budget.

According to this document, the application of open source software in Russian government must begin in the second quarter of 2012. The document entitled ' Plan to transfer state agencies and organize activities with the Federal budget to use open source software ' for the period 2011-2015. Deputy Minister of Information and Communications and Mass Communication Russia Ilyia Massuh told CNews.ru news website that the text covered all the steps of Russian agencies and organizations to use open source software.

Russian Prime Minister issued "Plan to transfer state agencies and organize activities with the Russian Federal budget to use open source software".

According to CNews.ru , by the third quarter of 2011, Russia must adopt data formats supported by open source software. By this time, Russia must complete guidelines to list intangible assets. This part must solve this long-standing problem in free proprietary software accounting and free open source software. Testing facilities must receive basic open source software packages starting in the second quarter of 2012. The mass deployment of free and open source software packages in state agencies and organizations must be completed in the third quarter of 2012.

One of the most interesting points of the plan is the involvement of the national app store , which will be built until the second quarter of 2012. Explained by Vice Minister Ylyia Massuh, the plan 'is not too fond of an app store. for Linux distributions that will open the same App Store for general open source operating systems . ' The creation of such an application store will be selected according to a government decree or bidding basis, Ilyia Massuh added.

One of the oldest 'open source' software applications in Russia is Sisyphus . This app store is being implemented by cum-developer developer Alt Linux. The CEO of Alt Linux Company Alexei Smirnov, who mastered plans to move Russian state agencies to open source software, said the plan did not give Sisyphus an advantage of "national regulation." but only encouraged Russian state agencies to make the most of Sisyphus's solutions. In 2010, Sisyphus was 10 years old, the number of application packages exceeded 10,000.

The history of the plan began in 2007 when the Russian Ministry of Communications and Mass Communication developed the ' Open Source Software Development and Use Perspective ', which was announced in the spring. in 2008. However, due to a change of personnel, the new Minister Igor Schegolev replaced former retired Minister Leonid Reiman, which has led to a review of this plan.

However, in the spring of 2008, a few days before Russian President Dmitri Medvedev took over the task, former President Vladimir Putin put the plan into the Russian government's work list, which means that Vladimir Putin has set himself for I'm on this mission. The plan recently signed by Mr. Putin is the last reviewed by the Russian Ministry of Communications and Media and signed from November 2010.

Whether or not only part of the Russian government system switched to open source software will also have a significant positive impact on the Russian economy, according to Alexei Smirnov: ' First, it gives permission to cut costs of state agencies for software copyright; secondly, the State of Russia transferred the cost of importing foreign products for the procurement of products from domestic producers; third, this encourages the creative development of the Russian economy . '