Thank you John for such a detailed input on the libraries; for one your
wife is a librarian and it's important that people understand what the
library actually is in our days and what it means to many people.  Will
has a serious misunderstanding about the services libraries offer, their,
sometimes unique and complex, IT infrastructure, who they serve and how
much Of highly sensitive information is stored on the libray's network. 
Nonetheless, I will be short this time.  I will use library staff as an
example: our library employs over 50 people.  That means we store all the
personnel data, SSNs, addresses, telephone numbers... plus budget data,
payment records... Add all 25000 library users with their home addresses,
telephone numbers, etc.  Personally, I don't want make all this data
available to some crackhead from off the web and I do my best to protect
it :)  I would gladly switch the Library over to Linux, but out patrons
DEMAND all kind of different educational software that is not available on
Linux. They don't use the library's PC just for web surfing. I wish! Our
data server alone is worth 100 000 dollars.  Will all the hax0r tools
available on Knoppix, I would be very careful about adding Linux to my
netowrk... Please forgive my ignorance... Personally, I would appreciate
something with centralized user management and working lockdown features.

Sincerely Yours,

Giovanni Tairov

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