Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
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Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#2Attitudes like this are one of the many reasons why porting complicated OSS software (like SageMath) to Windows is so hard.
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#3Sure, then don't complain others don't port their software to your platform of choice.
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#4Don't worry, nobody will.
If you hate people who use windows, then don't be surprised if they do same to you.
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#5Sun? This must be 10 years old at least... (Or the author has not stepped out from the basement where he/she lives in the last decade)
Also after having checked his/her works I'm not sure why would anyone want to use them (on windows or otherwise). For most of them there are other alternatives with less bigot authors for whom, if needed, one might even send contribution.
Bigots like Stallman or this author do the most harm to the image of free software movement.
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
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Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#7Attitudes like this are one of the many reasons why porting complicated OSS software (like SageMath) to Windows is so hard.
Hardly. This attitude is very rare among FOSS devs, the more common one being "I don't care if it works on Windows or not, as I don't use it; if you are willing to make it work on Windows with in way that does not make codebase suck too much for the rest of the world, go ahead, I accept patches".
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#8What an amazingly childish attitude. It's hard to have any respect for extremists like this - and that's exactly what they are. Extremists.
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#9What about OS X?
Re: Please do not port software to Windows (2001)
#10A couple years later the author was involved in a security audit for Windows Vista: https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a81a5919