On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 9:55 AM, John Cliff <john.cliff@...400...> wrote:
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Felipe Sanches <juca@...2270...> wrote:
I think that there is a consensus that Inkscape is a project committed to software freedom. Since drivers are software, it seems to me that our policy towards drivers is the same.
I thought we were committed to creating an open source SVG editor. We always used to leave the politics of platform etc out of it, which is why we have such a huge userbase on windows. you can definitely count me out of your consensus.
I think John is absolutely right here. I remember times when we've had releases held up for months because of Windows specific issues (in fact almost every release gets held up due to them whether it being bugs or packaging). But given that we even make it cross-platform for OSX and Windows shows that we *already* cater to proprietary setups/platforms to reach our goal of creating a cross-platform open source SVG editor.
Now the more important issue is that we don't need to discuss politics on this mailing list. Additionally, this conversation *doesn't even belong* on this mailing list, as Krzysztof rightly brought up in the forum thread, this would be something to implement in cairo, not Inkscape.
Cheers, Josh