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From: rossd at cns.me.berkeley.edu (Ross Dmochowski) Subject: Microsoft wins Homeland Security Bid ( Reuters) On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 17:31, northern snowfall wrote: > Even if you mod out an OS like Linux, you are still stuck with > the inability of support at a large scale, since other groups will > stray from supporting your distro as its codebase isn't as well > known and may be more advanced/abstract. > Don Most gov't functionaries require only kiosk-like application functionality. Email, Word-processing. Any more power than that, and you have wasted hours of taxpayer time sucked up with listening to mp3's and playing M$ Solitaire. And thin-clients have obvious security advantages. Patch-management is limited to the boxxen serving up the thin-clients, et alii. And plopping a P4 on someone's desk to do word-processing is like giving someone a hammer to put a stamp on an envelope. Unless you don't mind them running Kazaa to make use of your fat pipes, or leaking info via ICQ. -- If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it? -- Albert Einstein
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