[balug-talk] Good Letter in San Francisco Chronicle Today

[Robert B. Livingston]

To all:

The Letters Page of the San Francisco Chronicle had an excellent letter 
today by John F. Kohler of Daly City responding to a recent report that 
the SFPD relies on Windows 95:

    Editor --

    Sgt. John Lewis, of Park Station, (Letters, "Why do pols hate
    cops?,'' Oct. 1), mentions in his third paragraph, a truly sad state
    of affairs: "Do the people of San Francisco realize that we still
    use Windows 95 as our computer system?''

    The cost of replacing that system with the later version Microsoft
    product would be prohibitive and pointless because Windows is
    well-known as virus ridden, worm infested and Trojan-horse vulnerable.

    I'd gladly volunteer to help in an effort to introduce free, open
    source, secure software to the Police Department computers, such as
    Linux, FireFox, OpenOffice.org, and more to assist the officers.

Hope it opens a few eyes, and inspires some more intelligent ideas.

Sincerely,

Robert B. Livingston
San Francisco
http://www.geocities.com/gruaudemais/confetti_page.html

Linux, for example, has been around since its creation by Linus Torvalds 
in 1990, with improvements early and often.