Russia Mulling Charging Companies To Use Foreign Software (yahoo.com) 34
Russia may charge domestic companies to use foreign software, the TASS news agency quoted Digital Development Minister Maksut Shadaev as saying on Tuesday, as Moscow seeks to cut dependency on foreign technology and bolster its own. From a report: President Vladimir Putin has made achieving technological independence a key goal, as Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine seek to hamstring Moscow's ability to acquire technology and equipment from abroad that could help it on the battlefield. As part of that push, Putin signed a decree in early May which stated that at least 80% of Russian companies in key economic sectors should transition to using Russian-made software by 2030. Many Russian companies still use foreign software in their daily operations, although an EU sanctions package passed last December prohibits companies from supplying enterprise and design-related software to Russia. Shadaev said that introducing a levy on Russian firms would "equalise" foreign and Russian software.
Putin's shakedown (Score:5, Interesting)
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Either that, or he wants to buy a new villa and sock away more cash in Switzerland.
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I'm sure he already has a controlling interest in whatever the Russian equivalent of Microsoft is.
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ALL countries should do this, fund investment into OSS to remove dependance on other countries.
The EU needs to buy ARM, significantly upgrade its semiconductor manufacturing to improve country of origins options.
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> The EU needs to buy ARM
ARM is British, why should it move to the EU?
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The EU has greater financial backing
The EU has greater technological ability
The EU has fabrications plants
The EU has better privacy/consumer/etc protections
Re:Putin's shakedown (Score:4, Insightful)
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Leave me out of this, I deny all responsibility.
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Explains the switch to discount ho's like Tucker and MTG.
Re:Putin's shakedown (Score:4, Insightful)
Why pay more (or at all)? (Score:3)
Re: Why pay more (or at all)? (Score:5, Insightful)
sound fair (Score:4, Funny)
Sensible, yes. Acheavable? (Score:3)
While this is actually a sensible decision, I wonder how well Russia is actually able to achieve this, with it's economy being geared to war at the moment and a lot of its men dying at the front or tied up in building tanks and guns.
Another problem Russia faces is a lot of corruption. So, the law may say one thing, but the companies may bribe those needing to check them, or get low quality specialist software to deal with... leading to all kinds of problems.
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Really not given that Putin will live another 6 years. And current succession order is an utter mess.
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When you don't know how to troll, but you need to troll anyway.
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Making software for modern weapons systems is critical, so it needs and has coders, software architects etc just like it has factory workers and weapon system designers.
Most people forget that Russia and Ukraine both had by far the biggest cybercrime element in the world. And both have been militarized by this point.
There's a reason why there's a lot of new drones flying. On both sides. Those need custom made software.
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Making software for modern weapons systems is critical, so it needs and has coders, software architects etc just like it has factory workers and weapon system designers.
So that's why Russia's most advanced air defense systems are routinely eliminated by decades old NATO missiles.
Russia doesn't have any decent coders software architects etc. And now after so many of those "not up to the task" people have fled. You think the leftovers will be up to scratch? Laughable.
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While this is actually a sensible decision, I wonder how well Russia is actually able to achieve this, with it's economy being geared to war at the moment and a lot of its men dying at the front or tied up in building tanks and guns.
Another problem Russia faces is a lot of corruption. So, the law may say one thing, but the companies may bribe those needing to check them, or get low quality specialist software to deal with... leading to all kinds of problems.
Erm... the whole reason Putin is doing this is because he's broke from sending a lot of Russian men to die in Ukraine. Putin is broke and desperate.
And the inherent corruption is another reason he's desperate for money, all his supporters had their carefully stashed millions frozen, so they need to be paid off too.
Classic Slashdot formula is alive & well in Ru (Score:2)
2. ???
3. PROFIT!!
The Digital Curtain (Score:2)
The Soviet computer industry failed (Score:2)
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The current software stack is the result of a global effort by engineers from all continents. The only way Russia can come close in terms of functionality, security and reliability is by forking existing repositories. Otherwise it's not feasible to even attempt.
OS, made in the RU (Score:3)
8 Years ago, there were some headlines talking about Russia wanting develop their own software and drop US based systems. I wonder where all those made in RU tools are now?
https://tech.slashdot.org/stor... [slashdot.org]
For what? (Score:2)
Given his age, he won't even be there by 2030. And since other Russian leaders that may replace him are not as imperialistic, his ambition will most likely die with him.
Corruption (Score:1)
A lot of so-called "Russian" software is actually foreign software with copyrights and logos replaced.
Granted, truly Russian-developed software does exist.
It doesn't work (Score:2)
During the 1980s, Brazil heavily taxed all computer imports to “bolster” local production. All it achieved was creating a huge technological gap with other countries.
This will do basically the same thing for Russia. It's companies will end up with subpar software, greatly harming their performance.
It's happeng! (Score:2)
The year of the Linux Desktop is finally happening... in Russia. :)