Recent exchanges here and in related places have reminded me strongly of long discussions held on RedHat lists fifteen or twenty years ago. Was (now is) RH/F, and Linux generally, *for* all & sundry? Or was/is it essentially a plaything of the Alpha Plus Technoids? Which *should* it be? That distinction applied to shoes and ships and sealing wax, to cabbages and kings; i.e., all the way from designing new apps for GUI, for CLI only, or for some compromise -- to what sorts of posters and questions ought to be welcome or unwelcome on the public lists. I remember pointing out repeatedly that when the Baby Boomers began to retire, and cease to be bound to their employers' systems, some fraction of them would take up Linux -- and it wouldn't need a very big fraction of their numbers to make a substantial difference to Linux. To the best of my recollection, that issue never resolved into any consensus. RedHat changed its whole strategy, and suddenly many of us had far more urgent concerns than just the philosophic ones. By this time, at an informed guess, the Boomers must be retiring in spates and floods. My subjective impression is that I see more fellow retirees than before, but I can't guess numbers. Does anyone here have such numbers, or know of a source from whence to get them? -- 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 Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
