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/ _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
