Everyone missed the #1 point. Beside politics, there's a primary issue.

There is no way to buy a Windows 2000 license as of today. Due to the
settlement of the Sun-Microsoft case, Microsoft can't legally sell
Windows 2000 license anymore. I can't get a buildbot on Windows 2000
anymore. And we can't support a platform that we can't test on a
buildbot. And no, we won't use an old Pentium 120mhz as a buildbot. :)

Thanks for your comprehension.

M-A

2008/9/11 Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 11:58 PM, sfrahm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> To help Chrome begin to work expediently on Windows 2000 would only
>> take a single expression of cooperative intent towards the open source
>> community. Yes, we are thankful that the source is openly available,
>> but a spirit of cooperation would go much farther than the
>> antagonistic attitude seen to date. The open source community will do
>> the rest for you. Patiently and kindly and also for free. That's what
>> they do.
>
> I hear there are a number of workarounds in Chrome for
> problems with Win2k.  Maintaining them may become a burden
> someday.  The mainline might benefit from discarding these workarounds.
>
> That would of course make win2k chromium users sad.
> (Perhaps it would inspire them to migrate to Linux, as you are doing :-)
> Do you think there are enough win2k chromium developers to
> maintain a win2k branch that carried forward the win2k workarounds?
> - Dan
>
> >
>

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