DHS and M$

[Joel Hammer]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 06:57:17AM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:

> did I miss anything?

Yes, you did. The IS professionals they are going to hire don't know squat
about anything but windows. Thus, they will need to buy MS boxes with everything
pretty much set up for them.

Besides, Homeland Security is about making America safer, which means
protecting the American economy, which means MS$ Uber Alles. 

And, if Homeland Security went with linux, every hacker in the Middle
East would be trying to hack into their computers, and they would have
the source code to help them. With windows, I suspect that only a handful
of trusted friends (Russia, Israel, France, China, and a few others),
have the windows source code. And, they likely don't want to advertise
it and therefore won't bother hacking around with Homeland Security,
which isn't directed against them, anyway.

Joel