It has come to our attention that state and city governments of this state are 
not acting in the best intrest  of it's citizens. 'How is that?' you may 
wonder. 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.

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.

Sincerely:
Michael Havens
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	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 comecialized distributions]

	[My name on the letter is optional]

So what do you all think?