[plug] Small Business users and Linux?

[Onno Benschop]

Well, not all that long ago there was a dominant operating system for
mobile phones, Symbian. That was obliterated by Android and iOS.

I can see a future where your desktop computer is your mobile phone, thus
running either of those two operating systems, one of which is Linux.

--
finger painting on glass is an inexact art - apologies for any errors in
this scra^Hibble

()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno..

On Sat, 9 Apr 2022, 11:29 Thomas Cuthbert, <tcuthbert90 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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>> this scra^Hibble
>>
>> ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno..
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