On Mon, 2017-02-27 at 11:13 -0700, LucaDC wrote:
C R wrote
Imho, we should not be encouraging XP users to stay on XP, or any
OS that
is no longer supported by the community, or by the software
corporation
whence it came.
Sorry but I can't agree. This is always the same story: just say you don't want to help people who have a problem, don't try to convince them that they don't have it because you don't have any right to say so. If someone says he's stuck with Windows XP, why questioning on this? Just take it for granted and start from there.
We can actually argue a deeper moral sense about what is encouraging self harm and what is helping to serve user needs.
what CR is trying to say is that it may be morally dubious to increase windows XPs functionality at this stage. To do so suggests that using windows XP with new releases is safe and fair, and it's not safe or fair.
It's hard to say no sometimes. But in this case we're asking the project to spend a lot of time and effort helping people to continue to hurt themselves. I agree with CR here about the harms.
I say no to XP support. The project has enough to fix without supporting a dead operating system. Even if that no means letting users down and forcing them to upgrade their OS or stick with older Inkscape versions.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
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