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

[Michael T. Halligan]

Robert B. Livingston wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Man what a horrible idea. Forcing open source upon unwitting end-users? 
"This is broke, who do we get to fix it?" "The community"
"What the hell is the community" "the people who support us" "Ask them" 
"They said NO"