tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post4914842863829681956..comments2024-03-23T12:05:13.464-07:00Comments on Ideas: A Niche to FillDavid Friedmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06543763515095867595noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-1962964166134814392021-12-24T17:58:56.697-08:002021-12-24T17:58:56.697-08:00At the rate market niches I care about get filled,...At the rate market niches I care about get filled, you and I will be long dead - of old age - before anyone even tries, and like as not some large software company will promptly buy them up in order to shut them down. (Big software doesn't want to lose the business of those unhappy conservative users, but they also don't have a clue how to satisfy their needs/wants.) <br />DinoNerdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17319133631919484177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-77939369717440266102021-12-24T13:53:32.179-08:002021-12-24T13:53:32.179-08:00In the gaming world there is https://www.vogons.or...In the gaming world there is https://www.vogons.org/. Very Old Games On New Systems. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19727420.post-27841997206866613252021-12-24T11:15:25.517-08:002021-12-24T11:15:25.517-08:00That problem is limited to commercial operating sy...That problem is limited to commercial operating systems, where consumer interests are sometimes (often?) poorly aligned with OS vendors. The middle men you're imagining exist in the Open Source world. They're called distributions. <br /><br />Debian is a very mature, long-running example pure opens-source play; Red Hat, now IBM-owned, is another. <br /><br />Ubuntu is built on top of Debian. They customize it for people who want more of a slick, commercial desktop OS. Scientific Linux is built on top of Red Hat's open source line, and caters to STEM researchers. Kali linux is yet another that is geared towards security researchers. There are many others, because there are no barriers to entry.<br /><br />There are efforts looking at automatic virtualization for old software, again, in the open source world (Microsoft is not going to sell you software to reduce your need to upgrade).<br /><br />This is not about any of that, but I personally still run Windows 7 on a VM, in order to run some CAD/CAM software with my machines. There has been zero reson to upgrade that software, so I just virtualized the original physical machine, denied it network access for security, and have been running it for over a decade (under Linux).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com