The creators of ALT Linux are about the difficult fate of free software, the role of Maksut Shadayev and the deal with Rostelecom. TAdviser Podcast

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Timecodes:

1:55 Intro and Guest Presentation

2:45 First programming experience in the 1970s

4:00 First work of Alexei Novodvorsky: matclass teacher at 57 school

5:45 Alexei Smirnov's First Work: Recognition of a Written Handwritten Text Together

8:50 Development of computer games commissioned by Khodorkovsky

12:15 The creation of a cooperative in 1988 under the joint venture "Dialogue"

19:19 First introduction to Linux in 1995: "Open Kernel," Red Hat, Debian

28:30 Popularizing Linux in IPLabs Linux Team, introducing SUSE Linux

34:15 Linux-Mandrake Russian Edition Distribution Release

36:42 The creation of Alt Linux, along with people from the MSVS military operating system development team

43:18 First major government order -- delivery of 10,000 Linux computers to schools in 2004

49:10 The program of legalization of software in schools "First Aid" and the criminal case of Alexander Ponosov

53:45 The role of Maksut Shadayev in the project of legalization of software in schools and the introduction of free software in three regions of Russia

56:42 "The main mistake - we didn't save money"

1:01:44 Minister Leonid Reiman's attitude to free software

1:06:39 "The authorities changed and everything was covered with a copper basin," the creation of the Rosa company by Leonid Reiman

1:11:08 The defective circulation of SPOs for schools and other reasons for the failure of Linux in schools

1:20:45 Failed entry of Alt Linux into Rostec and failure with national software platform

1:30:33 The history of the appearance of the register of Russian software

1:35:52 Why not all Linux is free, example "Red Software"

1:39:43 Hard times, a new investor and the creation of a company "BASEALT"

1:46:10 Expanding Mass Market Operation b2c

1:50:05 Why there is no trust in MAX messenger

1:51:17 Is it a problem that there are many Linux distributions in the Russian software registry

1:55:27 Key players in the Russian Linux market today, difficulty estimating market share

2:02:37 About application software compatibility requirements with two operating systems

2:07:17 Why Sber and the Moscow government are doing their Linux versions

2:12:43 Why Rostelecom invested in BASEALT

2:17:10 Plans to include in the register of Russian software the product "Free Office," dispute with R7 and MyOffice

2:23:12 Termination of cooperation with Yandex.Browser

2:30:43 BASEALT plans in mobile operating systems market

2:37:49 Why MAX Doesn't Run Alt Linux and Why It Doesn't Open Its Code

2:39:57 Why software developed by state order is not published with open source

2:43:13 What do software developers expect from states

2:44:55 What to expect from 2026

2:52:30 Will Microsoft return to the Russian market