4 Oct
2005
4 Oct
'05
5:07 p.m.
Now, as things are presently, we may be able to scrape up some win9x devs to address the Cairo issues, but this is an issue that is not going to go away in the long term.
The fundamental problem is that a declining supply of free software developers own and use a copy of win98. Not just in Inkscape, but in the free software ecosystem as a whole.
I suppose one could argue, from a strategic point of view, that developers like Bryce or myself should pirate a copy of Win98 and devote their time to developing for it instead of (for example) Linux.
Needless to say, you'll have to forgive me if I decline.
-mental