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

[jim stockford]

buying new computers is the cheap part.

On Oct 10, 2006, at 2:38 AM, Bill Ward wrote:

> Another factor that isn't being discussed in this whole Linux for SFPD
> thread is the fact that getting more life out of their old computers
> is going to make it harder for them to do what they really need to do,
> buy new computers.  Government agencies need to justify the need for
> capital expenses like that, and when they can justify the need,
> immense amounts of cash can flow to pay for them.  I'm sure someone at
> the SFPD has been haranguing Sacramento and Washington for grants for
> new IT equipment, citing the very problems we are discussing fixing
> with Linux.  And eventually, they'll probably get a grant for a really
> state of the art system (that will be obsolete in two years, but not
> replaced for another twenty).  But if we fix those problems with
> Linux, they won't be able to make the argument that the need is
> desperate, so they won't get the grant for several more years to come.
>
> What, me, cynical?
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