<div dir="ltr"><div>I dunno about that. Maybe Linux just got good enough that a whole lot of tech support isn't needed. My brother now runs linux on his machines, and while he is a power user he has no skill or interest in actually programming. He just finds Ubuntu easier and more secure than the alternatives.<br>
<br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Jeff Hubbs <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jhubbslist@att.net" target="_blank">jhubbslist@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 1/28/14, 6:34 PM, Vernard Martin wrote:<br>
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Summary: The attendance itself was a sign that ALE is on its last legs. It doesn't matter what we want as obviously no one showed up to even state what they wanted :)<br>
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Perhaps it's because Linux as a community-based alternative to big software vendor hegemony is on its last legs. A Windows alternative with excellent hardware support and buy-it-and-turn-it-on convenience appeared in the form of a re-ascendant Apple, and most Linux usage was vacuumed up by a traditional for-pay model as presented by Red Hat. If you have vendor-sourced classes and certification tests instead of self-assembling forums, IRC channels, and listservs, community is no longer all that important.<div class="HOEnZb">
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