Last update: 16/08/2019
Unified software register
The Russian Federation aims to rid its public services of reliance on foreign software suppliers. The objectives are for Russia to gain control over the software that is uses, and to create independent and economically beneficial solutions. The policy is a roadblock to using open source, says one of the country’s open source advocates. In 2017, the government scrapped its 2015 plans to use procurement rules to direct public services towards open source software. Instead it launched a unified register for software solutions that can be used by public services. This ‘Unified Register of Russian…
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