[br073n]

Maybe so, oilpaint, but not today.

I'm 52 this year. I've used computers since DOS. You can sell the new toys to my son, maybe, and probably his kids. Meanwhile, I'm taking care of my health and plan to live a good long time, as do most of my clients, many already older. We aren't dead yet. We still like our old clunky computers and would like them to work well.

There are an awful lot of computers left in homes across the world, and I want to make them as useful as possible while they still work. The whole point of this inquiry was founded on the observation from my many years in serving clients -- the vast majority don't want the latest new toys. They consider their old toys a major investment. The problem is, far too few people in the world of Open Source realize this, because they can't imagine wanting what common users want. Maybe I can get lucky and find a way to mediate between the two.