On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:15:34 -0400, David wrote: > On 4/13/2013 2:46 PM, Beartooth wrote: >> There is a real opportunity here for somebody. An old adage says >> "Find a need, and fill it." >> >> As the Baby Boomers retire, there will be an increasing number, >> well content with the situation Paul Frields describes, who have life >> partners whom they expect to outlive them. The astute ones should be >> thinking about adopting an OS in time for those partners to get used to >> it. >> >> Fwiw, I estimate that there are enough now for somebody to get an >> affordable support system for CentOS, SciLi, et alii off the ground. > Sounds a little lame dude. You want to switch grandma to CentOS which > would surely affect her and 'the granddaughter' being able to share > kitten pictures? And, if / when she has problems and she asks 'the > neighbor kid' for help and he looks at the computer and asks 'what the > hell is this'? :-) Not at all. Grandma doesn't come into it. Jack & Jill (both power users at work, where they had layers of IT backup) are retired, and run Fedora now. Jack (their ersatz for Tech Support) is at home in these Frieldian media; so they're fine while his health lasts. He wants Jill not to have to stoop to some lesser OS if she outlives him, as the actuaries expect. But Jill loves golf and racquetball, not computers. So Jack puts her on SciLi or CentOS, while he's still hale & hearty. She gets used to it, and can do her email, browsing, and other routine stuff by herself. When she does hit a problem, she'll be able to hire neighbor kids, or students at the nearby college, ad hoc; but it'd be handier to pick up the horn (or start an email, if that's not affected), and get a bill. RedHat, with clients who need massive support, doesn't want Jill's business. But (sez me) there are enough of her now to support a start-up entrepreneur who does; and in a few years there'll be enough more to support a thriving business, with that entrepreneur in the catbird seat. Am I making sense yet? -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
