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Lee Brewer
Name: Lee Brewer
Occupation: Systems Integration Engineer
Employer: Sharp Business Systems of SC
Location: Simpsonville, SC
Google Talk: brewer.lee
IRC: uclugLee
My Linkedin Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/lbrewer
About Me
I currently live in Simpsonville, SC, with my wife of 16 years and 10 year old son. I currently work for the imaging division of Sharp Electronics. I'm the IT/network/computer person for our church and very active with the Boy Scouts of America. I've been using Fedora as a desktop OS since I was at Nuvox, which would have been sometime around the Fedora 4-ish days.
Why I Joined Fedora
In the mid 1990's I jumped on the MCSE bandwagon with dreams of getting certified and making $100k a year. After getting A+, Net+ and MCSA, I discovered a constant value with the Micro$oft way of thinking: "Our way is the only way"
Then when I was working for Nuvox a friend suggestged I give Linux a try. "Why?" I asked. And I loved his answer: "Because if there is something you don't like, you can change it."
WHAT?!?!? A company that ENCOURAGES you to make changes to their operating system? Where do I get it? And he handed me a Fedora 4 disk, and I've been hooked ever since.
I joined the Fedora project in May 2009 after being threatened......uh, I mean.....talked into it by David Nalley. I want to show as many people at possible just how easy it is with Fedora to migrate away from that other operating system.