Today Russian Prime Minister Putin ordered all federal workers and all governing structures to start moving to Linux and open source software. Someone has convinced Putin that using Linux and open source software saves money. In the long run it may, but for the next several years it’ll carry a huge price tag. But this is the least of my concerns.

I really enjoy the fact that it’s up to the Prime Minister what operating system to use. I guess, if Putin didn’t sign this decree, Russia would continue to suffer from Microsoft slavery and oppression.

What would be the next logical move by Mr. Putin? I guess he should consider signing a bill dictating the use certain design patterns in software development. For example, every software developer must use Model-View-Controller. But since Russia doesn’t like mimicking the western ways of doing things, MVC must be implemented in one tier. As a matter of fact, Mr. Putin is a great example of MVC in a single body. Software developers who won’t obey the MVC law will be subject to a mandatory Dependency Injection that will be administered in special medical facilities.

My only hope is that the conversion of the top country leaders into sysadmins is not contagious and President Obama won’t pick it up from them. Otherwise, I’ll have to reformat my MacBook Pro and hire Russian hackers to install GNU/Linux there.