[balug-talk] Linux computers for the police! With Link

[Greg Herlein]

> It would indeed be a major task to retool a police department with Linux--

The cost actually would have little to do with Linux - and a lot more
to do with the applications any legacy organization has in place.  To
port/rewrite/modernize those applications for linux is a MAJOR amount
of work - not to mention the training costs associated with the
smallest change (for the cops as well as the support staff).

This thread is interesting but ultimately I fear nothing will come of
it.  The cost of re-tooling an organization has so little to do with
the OS and so much more to do with the work flow, the custom
applications, the support infrastructure, and the momentum of
sloooooooowwwwww changes...  and frankly, all of the current
infrastructure is already paid for.

Is linux better? Obviously.  Would it make fiduciary sense to change
the City PD to Linux?  Probably not.