<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Christofer C. Bell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:christofer.c.bell@gmail.com">christofer.c.bell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
David, no one is in the target demographic of this service. People do<br>
not want their personal computers, their property, in their homes,<br>
managed by someone else. Your mother does not need this service. She<br>
does not need to pay money to someone to take over her computer,<br>
install Linux on it, and run her "comfy Windows" in a VM. What your<br>
mother needs is *you* helping her.<br>
<font color="#888888"></font></blockquote><br>Hate to undermine your argument, but your own mom would love it if you would remotely administer her machine in this way, so I think that there is a market, the question is "how big" and "how hard" (hrm, that sounds wrong).<br>
<br>David, the number one issue I see is dealing with the huge variety in hardware configurations. The second issue being how to deal with hardware failures and network failures. The bad news is that in both circumstances you would have no control and no special access to deal with them. In my opinion that's a deal killer.<br>
</div><br clear="all">Jeffrey.<br><br>-- <br><br>"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine<br>
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