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

[Bill Ward]

My point is that when governments buy hardware, they usually require
the old stuff to be completely past its useful life in order to get
the grant, and then when they do get the grant they get enough to "do
it right" - it's not the case that they save their pennies until they
have just enough to make a few small upgrades.

On 10/10/06, jim stockford <jim at well.com> wrote:
>
> 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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