[plug] Small Business users and Linux?

[Thomas Cuthbert]

I'm sure if there was money to be made in this market, Linux vendors would
target it. I don't think there is, so not worth investing time and mind. I
do not see Linux ever being useful as a consumer computing platform. The
minimum level of computing literacy required to be productive is too high
for the general population, who aren't emotionally attached to technology,
they just want things to work and perform the functions they paid for.

Microsoft and Apple win here because they aren't run by a committee and
beholden on external technology stakeholders.

On Fri, 8 Apr 2022, 4:40 pm Onno Benschop, <onno at itmaze.com.au> wrote:

> The discussion here around SOE and different levels of support by Red Hat
> and others leads me to start a conversation around users who are not part
> of a corporate office, the people whom I generally work with, the small and
> micro businesses, the ones that account for most of the GDP in the country,
> the ones that are by enlarge shackled to the Microsoft ecosystem, where
> rebooting for regular updates is "normal", where antivirus software is a
> source of revenue for suppliers, but has absolutely no value for the person
> paying, where backups are done on a decade old USB stick that may or may
> not be actually working, where offsite means in your backpack or bedside
> table at home.
>
> I'm not talking about the semi computer literate people, some of whom
> might dabble with Linux on the side, I'm taking about businesses that are
> required to use MYOB because that's what their accountant uses.
>
> What I want to know is what is being done about those people?
>
> What's being done for students using their first serious computer?
>
> What about the local corner store that uses excel to track stock, or the
> farmer who has a bunch of worksheets to track their stock breeding program?
>
> What is being done about those people? How are people like Red Hat,
> Canonical and others working towards those people?
>
> What are YOU doing about it?
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