Off topic, but a good read

[Patrick Turnage]

Hi Ryan.
Internet service providers are quite expensive to start and most smaller
companies in the United States have been bought up by the baby bells or
larger internet providers. Maybe a cheeper solution would be to advertise
as a manufacturer of computers. You put the system together install Linux
either with or with out speakup support and x or no x based on the
customer's preferences and maybe you include a book or two.. who knows.. 
At 12:03 PM 3/5/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>
>You said you were trying to come up with some ideas for a small business.
>Have you thought about trying to start an internet service provider that
>fully supports Linux?  Maybe you could start a system where a customer can
>contract to use your ISP for a certain amount of time.  In return they are
>given a computer with a Linux distribution pre-installed and set up to use
>your internet service provider.  If the customer decides to cancel their
>account before the contract is up, they have to pay for the computer.
>
>
>On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Steve Holmes wrote:
>
>> My god! that was sure a looooong one but quite interesting.  I had no
>> idea how devicive and manipulative Microsoft really was.  We all poke
>> fun at them and I know them to be controlling and all that but
>> conspiring? Theyreally want to take control of the vertical and
>> horizontal, don't they:).  As I was reading along, every time I heard
>> the terms "open source", linux, alternatives, I kept getting a feeling
>> of fresh air when that microsoft domination stuff started really
>> getting me down.
>>
>> Meanwhile, I'm sitting here trying to group together some ideas for a
>> small business opportunity to perhapse, exploit some of the hopefully,
>> growing anti microsoft centiment.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:36:18AM -0330, Doug Lawlor wrote:
>> > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 01:19:21PM -0700, Dawes, Stephen wrote:
>> > >  Thanks, you didn't miss the mark at all on this one.
>> >
>> > I would like to second that one.    Thanks for the pointer to the
>> > article.
>> >
>> > Doug
>> >
>> >
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>> > Doug Lawlor <dlawlor at warp.nfld.net>
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