The dominant Windows gets more recently also verhaltene, competition from Belarus. Local experts have developed its own operating system that can at least price keep up with Microsoft’s monopoly product with only 12 dollars.

The operating system developed by scientists of the Academy of Sciences in Minsk is to similar to invite like Linux with an open source code to take part. According to the Academy, there are already first concrete prospects for the product with the EU and NATO. For the development of the platform was the demand of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko of many Western officials as a dictator, who finds Windows simply too expensive and believed that the reason for the widespread piracy in Eastern Europe: “it is difficult simple citizens, to buy an operating system for $ 300.” With delicate twelve dollars a CD, the operating system could in fact take on the Eastern Europe foot.