alt <spamtrap@xxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> On Sat, 19 May 2007 03:29:26 +0100, [H]omer wrote:
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>>> Police Career - Linux Computer Systems in Law Enforcement
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | Kent Police have lowered the cost of running their major criminal
>>> | investigations system by a factor of 90%...
>>
>> There's that ... and the fact that criminal investigations are one of
>> many critical applications where people cannot risk nonsense like BSODs.
>>
>> I can just imagine the reaction of some Copper confronted by a WGA
>> notification that "This copy of Windows is not genuine" after doing a
>> Windows "update".
>>
>
> More importantly, criminal investigations are a matter of secrecy. They
> cannot risk their machines being infected by a virus that sends this
> private data out to someone else for who knows what purpose.
On top of that, we pay for the police forces from our own taxes, so
there is no excuse for wasting money on proprietary software when there
are much less expensive equivalents which can be selected instead.
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