On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 12:06 PM, Laurent Bercot <[email protected]> wrote:
> when the user buys such a piece of hardware > Just be careful, the assumption is the user is the installer is the buyer, and frankly most of the machines I've installed in the last 20 years, that has not been the case. The old "heres a donor from the junk pile for The Experiment" that gets linux and somehow worms its way into production, the old desktop at home that turns into a LAN router or print server (in the old days before home routers existed as hardware). Donor hardware in general, junk from ham radio festivals, hand me downs... I would wager that "many" linux installs end on hardware where the buyer doesn't even know linux exists. Especially in business environments where the buyer is some guy who got sports team tickets for the big sale and he couldn't care less about the suffering the installer is going thru, may never even meet the installer. And the user often couldn't care less about the suffering of the installer either. I have hand built dedicated linux boxes from hardware I selected and paid for that I use, which fits the user = installer = buyer, but off the top of my head thats only 6 boxes in 20+ years out of dozens if not hundreds of systems over that time?
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