Re: “KDE For Windows 10 Exiles” Campaign

On 6/6/25 5:49 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 04:14:28 -0700, T wrote:
 

On 6/5/25 4:27 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

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Well, either they consider their IT a strategic competitive asset, or
they don’t. If they do, then betting their business on inflexible
software that is incapable of adapting to modern needs is going to
rebound on them sooner or later.

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The problem is that most businesses do not want to adapt to anything.
They want what they have to continue working. Period.

 That’s fine. So they get out-competed by somebody who pays more attention
to IT being a strategic competitive asset, and go out of business. No need
to feel any sympathy for them.

Small business, which is my customer base, thrive on keeping
costs down.  They see IT as a despised expense to be avoided.
I really do no like walking into a new customer with them
thinking I am a con man.  Backup? UPS power supplies?
Ethernet instead of wireless?  Anti Virus? They act like I
am some sort of criminal.  Well, until they get to know me.
There is a lot of fraud in all professions.

And you have the "I don't want to learn anything new " crowd.

 For a business that persists in employing such people, see above.

There is a livestock feed store in town that has no computers.
They listed all the lost income their competitions had from
crashes and such.  They are ahead of the curve cost wise.
So, it depends on how serious you are about your IT if you
actually get any benefit out of it.  If you chisel your
IT to keep costs down, you wind up taking it in the shorts.
One customer I had, does not upgrade any hardware until
it dies.  When their server went down, it really cost and
hurt them.