On Tuesday, July 2, 2013 8:15:10 AM UTC-7, Zack Weinberg 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.)

City of Munich is doing it, BTW:
http://www.geek.com/microsoft/munich-to-distribute-linux-cds-to-get-people-to-ditch-windows-xp-1559894/
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