What do you think underlies Russian anti-monopoly authorities' intention to include Microsoft in their register of monopolies?
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Protection/growth of local industry
Reduce reliance on foreign company
Encourage free alternatives like Linux
Move towards using open standards
Penalize Microsoft, like the EU have done, with associated benefits.
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It seems Russia's anti trust laws prohibit forcing a client to buy a new product they don't want.
Last fall they joined forces with Cuba in an anti Microsoft effort:
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07 NOVEMBER 2008
Russia and Cuba Unite Against Microsoft
Recently, Russia announced that it was pushing Microsoft out of its schools in favour of open source. Now, it's going even further by joining with Cuba to write free software that can be used instead of Microsoft's products in other areas:
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see:
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/11/russia-and-cuba-unite-against-microsoft.html
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According to a Reuters report Thursday, regulators there argue that Microsoft is violating Russian antitrust law by limiting supplies of Windows XP while demand exists and forcing people to buy Windows Vista.
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see:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10257220-56.html
and
http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSTRE55358020090604
for more information on the anti trust charges.
Disclosure:
I am a confirmed Microsoft hater.
This not an unbiased answer.
Go get'em Dmitriy ! ! !
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