Re: [PATCH] system-type cygwin with window-system w32

[David Kastrup]

Daniel Colascione <address@hidden> writes:

> On 7/18/2011 3:08 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>>     I don't recall that discussion.  Can we reopen it?  According to [1],
>>     Windows 98 has a market share of 0.03%.
>> 
>> That must be hundreds of thousands of people.
>
> ~300,000 if we assume 1 billion people worldwide.  That's still
> miniscule in proportion --- and of those 300,000, how many are savvy
> enough to be Emacs users?
>
> If there _are_ any remaining Windows 9X Emacs users, dropping 9X
> support will be doing them a favor: using an OS that doesn't receive
> security updates is terribly dangerous.

Why?  Not every computer is used for browsing the internet.

-- 
David Kastrup