It's interesting to see the developing world adopt GNU/Linux. Venezuela created Canaima. [1] Turkey created Pardus. [2] Iran has announced plans for a national

It's interesting to see the developing world adopt GNU/Linux. Venezuela created Canaima. [1] Turkey created Pardus. [2] Iran has announced plans for a national distro. [3] Russia has announced plans for its public sector to use free software. [4] I suspect, though, that many of these initiatives are simply exercises by universities or government IT organizations to understand the technology, rather than to advocate for its use. [1] http://canaima.softwarelibre.gob.ve http://canaima.softwarelibre.gob.ve [2] http://www.pardus.org.tr http://www.pardus.org.tr [3] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/03/security_fears.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/03/security_fears... [4] http://open.cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2010/12/27/421556 http://open.cnews.ru/news/top/index.shtml?2010/12/27/421556