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Asa Dotzler  
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 More options Feb 5 2010, 3:26 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Asa Dotzler <a...@mozilla.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:26:27 -0800
Local: Fri, Feb 5 2010 3:26 pm
Subject: Re: Dropping Mac OS X 10.4 support in Gecko 1.9.3
On 2/5/2010 8:17 AM, Phillip Jones wrote:

> And I am not the only one. I just happen to be the only one to voice an

If you had read Josh's post, you'd know that we all understand you are
no the only one.  There are curerntly approximately 1.5 million people
using Firefox on 10.4 and we're fully aware of that.

> opinion. Most just take what they are given and stew in the background.
> Silly me I don't. So in the end my opinion doesn't count for anything.
> You' do what you do. Do what a lot of shareware do, use a two track
> method. designate one for older versions and one for newer versions.

Does this suggestion come with a donation for doubling of full-time
development resources, QA and testing, build and release infrastructure,
and user support for this second track that would cover a shrinking
minority of Firefox on Mac users?

> You can create a one with all the fancy new stuff. Then one for us poor
> people that can drop 3k at the drop of the hat and have to hang on to
> older equipment out of necessity.

If you cannot afford to "drop 3k at the drop of a hat" perhaps you can
afford to save up over the next year or so while this transition happens
so you can by a newer Mac (Apple has refurbished iMacs running Snow
Leopard for ~USD850
http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac In a year, I'll
bet you could find one for half that price.)

That being said, I suspect that any sane outcome of this discussion will
have to prioritize Mozilla's project resources over your personal resources.

- A


 
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