Russian software theft. What a difficult decision to make.

[Mac the Knife]

All in all I reckon the cops did 'em a favour - they're now switching to Linux - http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=37460

"Microsoft says that the incident has nothing to do with them, but it appears that Russian schools in the area are so scared about being shipped off to a Siberian Gulag, that they are buying Linux gear instead.
Schools in the Perm region will soon quit buying software from commercial companies, said the region’s Education Minister Nikolay Karpushin. The announcement was made in line with the report on ensuring 'license purity' in the region’s schools.
According to Karpushin, schools would start using freely distributed software like the Linux OS, Russky office and Open office desktop apps, Ekho Moskvi reports.
The flavour of Linux being used will be one of the cheap localised Russian Linux distributives in Russia."