€2,5 million to burn ISO image wrongly
I am pretty sure that most of us know how to burn CDs. Moreover, burning prepared ISOs is a deal of one GUI click or one console command. However, it seems that IBS(ru) Company, Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner, cannot do even it. Sad, but true.
Last years there were some good movements in Russia towards Free Software, and there is a some plan to throw some proprietary software components to trash for year 2010 in favor of Free Software ones (mostly due for costs, not ideas).
As a part of such movements, and by the government contract, ALT Linux Company, the Russia-originated and Russia-oriented Linux distributor prepared 3 CD medias for 57 thousands of Russian schools. Mentioned above IBS(ru) was just to replicate these disks and send them to schools.
Possibly, someone decided this is a boring task and chose to remaster disks. Did all replication and sent medias. They didn't bothered even to test the disks - at least of the them should be bootable, and this property was lost during "remastering". After the loud scandal in press people apologized and promised to re-send corrected CDs. Yeah, really, they re-sent. Second time they messed up with filename encoding, and all Russian (non-Latin) file names were unreadable by Linux by default. Nice work, eh? There will no third try, they sure it's all right.
Last years there were some good movements in Russia towards Free Software, and there is a some plan to throw some proprietary software components to trash for year 2010 in favor of Free Software ones (mostly due for costs, not ideas).
As a part of such movements, and by the government contract, ALT Linux Company, the Russia-originated and Russia-oriented Linux distributor prepared 3 CD medias for 57 thousands of Russian schools. Mentioned above IBS(ru) was just to replicate these disks and send them to schools.
Possibly, someone decided this is a boring task and chose to remaster disks. Did all replication and sent medias. They didn't bothered even to test the disks - at least of the them should be bootable, and this property was lost during "remastering". After the loud scandal in press people apologized and promised to re-send corrected CDs. Yeah, really, they re-sent. Second time they messed up with filename encoding, and all Russian (non-Latin) file names were unreadable by Linux by default. Nice work, eh? There will no third try, they sure it's all right.