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Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Asa Dotzler <a...@mozilla.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:05:18 -0800
Local: Fri, Feb 5 2010 9:05 pm
Subject: Re: Dropping Mac OS X 10.4 support in Gecko 1.9.3
On 2/5/2010 3:18 PM, Mulder wrote:
> While Mozilla may think that dropping support for Mac OS X 10.4 is a And you think it will still be well over 1 million users a year from now? > good idea, you're dead wrong. There is no need to do this; it's a > short-sighted plan to avoid supporting well over a million users who > are still running 10.4 for various reasons; > You can't claim poverty, either. Mozilla takes in many millions of limited resources. I can count the serious Mac platform experts we have on one hand and splitting those resources more than is critically necessary isn't something I'm excited about. One of those top experts is making this proposal and I doubt he'd be making it if he thought we had the resources to easily support 10.4 and 10.5&6. > If you're going to drop support for 10.4 no matter what people say, Can you provide further insight than we already have into the number of > then what's the point of asking for our feedback? When you can explain > that, you might be getting to the root of the problem: yourselves. people using 10.4 or using Firefox on 10.4 or into Apple's future support schedule or how much work is actually involved in maintaining support for 10.4? Those kinds of things would be useful feedback. "I'm on 10.4 so you're stupid for dropping it in a year" isn't valuable feedback. - A You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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