>
> Next: In a recent heated discussion on Planet
> Abisource, someone (Hubert
> Figuiere or Martin Sevior?) defended continuing to
> maintain Abiword for
> Windows 9x. The context was some glitches surviving
> in Abi 2.4. I for one
> want to thank the developers for spending great time
> and effort to
> continue supporting the older operating systems.
> There are lots of reasons
> for maintaining the support, practical but also
> philosophical: it helps in
> some small way to reduce Microsoft's power to coerce
> upgrades. If
> maintaning the older systems is a burden on the
> developers, resulting in
> some imperfections in the latest Abi release (though
> I've found it to be
> very solid so far), I want them to know that the
> effort is much
> appreciated, at least by me.
>
I second the motion. I still use NT, and am ever more
annoyed at the way people don't even mention it any
more, so that I have no idea what will or won't work
on it except by trying. Some of the problem is herd
mentality: People are simply following MS's lead,
partly to make things easier for themselves, partly
because it seems "standard" and therefore acceptable.
Bucking the trend makes it harder for other developers
to play follow the leader so casually.
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