First Vice Prime Minister of Russia honours Fidonet and Open Source

translator — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:12:07 +0300

First Vice Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev has shown much involvement answering the questions of web users during his online press-conference. To answer a funny question about 'hypertextual fidonet' the minister has registered himself in Fidonet and gave a detailed comment. He liked Fidonet for it is less commercialised than Internet. He also admitted that the lack of hyperlinks in their usual form is quite a problem, so the 'hypertextual fidonet' would be an important step.

Also he flatters web users speaking padonki slang. Actually he got into it last year during president Vladimir Putin's online conference. Foreign journalists mixed up his name with a popular questions about 'medved' (padonki's word for 'bear' and a famous meme). At his own conference Medvedev told the story of another meme, "Learn Albanian!" ('albanian' corresponds to Russian language in general or the padonki slang in particular), to answer the provocative question about whether Albanian will be studied at Russian schools.

First vice prime minister said nothing about how soon the brodband Internet would be available somewhere in Russia except Moscow and St.Peterbourg. Although he emphasized that the national project 'Internet at school' is not supposed to use dial-up anyhow. Dmitry Medvedev also spoke about proprietary software problem saying it's necessary to switch to open source both to fight piracy and to correspond to European trends.

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