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Re: [News] [Linux] Linux is Becoming Popular at the Police

  • Subject: Re: [News] [Linux] Linux is Becoming Popular at the Police
  • From: "[H]omer" <spam@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 03:29:26 +0100
  • In-reply-to: <1859807.7Gat7Kg6FH@schestowitz.com>
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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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".

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| 'Also, no one calls it PCI-X even though that's the "official "
| shortening of the much more commonly used "PCI Express".'
|    - Hardon Quirk, COLA's resident "genius".
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