No one is going to stomp on windows developers. I think Bryce was
thinking out loud with a mooted elsewhere story there.

Gotcha. I don't know how many windows devs there are on the project, but they deserve a lot of love and much respect from everyone in the community. I say that as a hard-core Linux user.

Inkscape has always invited developers to maintain the parts that they
care about the most. And we're really freeking lucky to have some good
windows and macosx packagers (and testers, and even some development) to
get inkscape working on those platforms.

Completely agree.

What we were sort of saying is that windows users are many and we should
be able to support them better. We could do that by asking them to
contribute funding, especially for those self same windows packagers and
developers.

Sure, don't see why not. It's definitely worth an ask, something on the order of "Help support ongoing Inkscape development on Windows", and explain how more support means Inkscape devs can bring updates faster for Windows.

If the volume is big enough, us linux developers wouldn't
have any bad feelings about having win clutter in the code.

Certainly.

But that's just economics. The other half was education and we got a
bold load of stuff on that list. Everything from why are open standards
like svg good for you, to where can you get a job doing inkscape art and
design. But we can work on all these points with community building too.

All very good information. Let me know if you want help, graphics, videos, etc.

I use open source tools to create all of it. And work entirely in Linux outside of my day job (all my freelancing is done on Linux).

So the educational materials also serve as proof that Open Source software is commercial-grade.

Thanks for your explanation of your position. I don't agree with every
point, but our positions are not incoherent. :-)

Not a problem! :) Thanks for your explanations as well. We don't have to agree on everything to work together towards the things we do agree on. Great thing about the Open Source community is there are lots of differences of opinion, but we all share some common and important things, including a love of sharing, and a genuine desire to help each other and the world at large.