Hi Ryan. Internet service providers are quite expensive to start and most smaller companies in the United States have been bought up by the baby bells or larger internet providers. Maybe a cheeper solution would be to advertise as a manufacturer of computers. You put the system together install Linux either with or with out speakup support and x or no x based on the customer's preferences and maybe you include a book or two.. who knows.. At 12:03 PM 3/5/2003 -0500, you wrote: > >You said you were trying to come up with some ideas for a small business. >Have you thought about trying to start an internet service provider that >fully supports Linux? Maybe you could start a system where a customer can >contract to use your ISP for a certain amount of time. In return they are >given a computer with a Linux distribution pre-installed and set up to use >your internet service provider. If the customer decides to cancel their >account before the contract is up, they have to pay for the computer. > > >On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Steve Holmes wrote: > >> My god! that was sure a looooong one but quite interesting. I had no >> idea how devicive and manipulative Microsoft really was. We all poke >> fun at them and I know them to be controlling and all that but >> conspiring? Theyreally want to take control of the vertical and >> horizontal, don't they:). As I was reading along, every time I heard >> the terms "open source", linux, alternatives, I kept getting a feeling >> of fresh air when that microsoft domination stuff started really >> getting me down. >> >> Meanwhile, I'm sitting here trying to group together some ideas for a >> small business opportunity to perhapse, exploit some of the hopefully, >> growing anti microsoft centiment. >> >> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:36:18AM -0330, Doug Lawlor wrote: >> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:19:21PM -0700, Dawes, Stephen wrote: >> > > Thanks, you didn't miss the mark at all on this one. >> > >> > I would like to second that one. Thanks for the pointer to the >> > article. >> > >> > Doug >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Make sure your E-mail can be read by everyone! >> > http://www.betips.net/etc/evilmail.html >> > >> > Doug Lawlor <dlawlor at warp.nfld.net> >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Speakup mailing list >> > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> -- >> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. >> See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > ----- Patrick Turnage E-mail: pturnage at tampabay.rr.com AOL Instant Messenger: kg4dqk Home Page: http://www.access-connect.com Connecting the world to access technology information. For all mainstream and adaptive hardware and software.
