On 31-Jan-10, at 11:35 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote:
On 2010-Jan-31 22:02:19 -0800, Nick Alexander
<ncalexan...@gmail.com> wrote:
Not at all. But take away mathematics, and we don't have a
*product*. Take away release management, fixing bugs, documentation,
or maintaining the web site and we have an inferior project, but we
still have a project. Take away support for Solaris or HP-UX, and we
don't serve what appears, to me, to be a small market. (Certainly
small compared to the potential pool of Microsoft Windows users.)
IMHO, that's a particularly unhelpful attitude.
Who said that was my attitude? I explicitly recognized David's
efforts on our behalf.
But notice: in your reply, the one thing you didn't subject to your
thought experiment was Solaris support!
I think I am done with this thread. I have put in my two cents; I
think everyone reading this thread knows that at least one sage
developer is not thrilled with the additional burden that Solaris/HPUX/
platform X support puts on the project. I'm certainly not intending
to agitate against your efforts -- but I would like that the cost that
comes with them be recognized, and, when reasonable, debated.
Nick
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