How's this one-
-> Editor
<- Concerned citizens

It has come to our attention that state and city governments of this state are 
not acting in the best interest  of it's citizens. The state and city 
governments have no money yet they contiune to  give  hundreds of thousands 
of dollars (if not then millions) to a company  that is in the state of 
Washington known as Microsoft. They continue to do  this by leasing licenses 
for their operating system (OS) Windows 2000,  Windows XP, or Windows 2003 
even though their are viable alternatives to the Windows OS called RedHat 
Linux or SUSE Linux or even Mepis Linux among many. Further, with  each new 
upgrade of their operating system most of the old hardware becomes obsolete 
requiring additional monies to make it so their OS will function. This is not 
so with Linux. At our last install-fest we put a modern functioning Linux OS 
on a 1991 laptop.

Linux is part of a movement called open source in which the source code (inner 
workings of the program) is available for everyone to inspect and to improve 
upon. While some say this leads to a less secure OS, that is not true.  The 
individuals who write computer virii are are usually young and inexperienced 
individuals who think they are smarter than they really are (this is why they 
ALWAYS get caught). And while they are looking at the code with malicious 
overtones the wiser, more experienced generation is inspecting the same code 
fixing any security flaws they find in the OS.

Because the code is open for all to see it is also open for all to compile 
(make operational). This means that it is also free to compile and use as 
your OS. But it goes deeper than just the operating system, all of the 
applications included with most distributions of the Linux OS are also open 
source. This means that for nothing you can have an operating that is 
superior to Microsoft's operating system with similar application programs.

To close this letter I would like to show you government agencies and the like 
that have chosen to go with linux:

-U.S. agencies like the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Naval Research 
  Laboratoryt, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the Agriculture and 
  Energy department
-Intelligence agencies in the US, Canada, Germany, England, Spain, France,
  Singapore, and China
-Largo, Florida
-Garden Grove, California
-Austin, Texas (pilot program)
-Rome, Italy city government
-Goverment of Israel
-The parliament of  Germany.
-Munich, Germany city government
-City government of Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
-The culture, defense, and education ministries of France
-China uses Linux in their post offices
-Taiwan plans to move half of it's government's computers to Linux within five 
  years
-The U.S. National Security Agency made its own version of Linux,
  Security-Enhanced Linux, available for download from its Web site


Sincerely:
Michael Havens
---
        note:  I think we should send the  letter  promoting  one  of  the 
        distributions. Although I prefer  Debian I think we should go with one 
        of the comercialized distributions that have phone support]

        [My name on the letter is definately optional]

So what do you all think?
-- 
<:-)Mike(-:>






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