Support for the project by Russian Federation state is an important impellent to release a working package of that open source OS which is with no tight license. (If we would speak about a tight license - it makes (would make) useless crap from a project.) And about the criticism to state support : if there will be no ROS, people will have either to use Windows itself, or Linux+Wine. Would that limitation be better ? And that is not the first place - that is the second place for support to a client/server OS project (the first place was given to some Linux project http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=42406 ).