On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Zack Weinberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2013-06-26 10:37 AM, Johnathan Nightingale wrote: > >> XP is a massive platform both for our current user base and for the >> developing world where we see millions of new web users coming online >> every month. We won't be dropping support in the near future, nor do >> we have a set date by which we would do so. >> > > I'd just like to throw in here that for a lot of the people still on XP, > desktop Linux is at least theoretically a more suitable replacement OS than > more-recent Windows (because of the generally smaller hardware > requirements). Therefore, if things get to the point where XP support is > holding us back, I think we would be well-served to sink some effort into > making sure that *is* a viable option for this chunk of our user base. > (What that would consist of, I don't know. Possibly just throwing money > at $DISTRO_OF_CHOICE.) This is waaaaaay out of scope of the current discussion. - Kyle _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
