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On Saturday 05 June 2004 07:23 pm, Michael Havens wrote:
> 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
should be spelled as "continue" -----------^^^^^^^^^

> 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
wrong form! ------------------------^^^^ - should be "there"
> 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
insert "practically" --------------^
> superior to Microsoft's operating system with similar application programs.
>
> To close this letter I would like to show you government agencies and the
insert "that" -------------------------------------------^
> 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
drop the "t" ---^
>   Energy department
capital "D" ^
also insert "(just to name a few)."

> -Intelligence agencies in the US, Canada, Germany, England, Spain, France,
>   Singapore, and China
remove this ---^^^             ^insert "and others."

here I would add "Some state and local and federal goverments that use Linux 
include:"
> -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?
see my corrections/comments above
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