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Re: Quit [now definitely O/T]
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: Quit [now definitely O/T] |
Date: |
Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:45:31 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Kieren MacMillan <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Jan,
>
>> I'm just pointing out that choosing something different will
>> --currently still -- cost you.
>
> Absolutely... and, as we've witnessed, this is almost certainly
> materially affecting the number of developers that can/will work on
> Lilypond.
>
> Like it or not, >95% of the computer world is not on Linux — for
> example, see <http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php>, which puts
> Linux at ~2.2% share. Put another way, the difficulty of setting up a
> development system on anything but Linux is a significant obstacle to
> Lilypond's potential.
It's not as bad as the numbers suggest. The ratio of serious developers
who will balk at getting their development environment up and running
will not be all that large.
I think that the user base is affected more than the developer base.
But again: batch processing is something that tends to scare more
Windows users than Linux/Unix/etc.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], (continued)
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Kieren MacMillan, 2009/11/12
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2009/11/12
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Kieren MacMillan, 2009/11/12
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2009/11/12
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Kieren MacMillan, 2009/11/12
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Graham Percival, 2009/11/12
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T],
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Kieren MacMillan, 2009/11/12
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], David Kastrup, 2009/11/12
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Kieren MacMillan, 2009/11/12
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], David Kastrup, 2009/11/12
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Jan-Peter Voigt, 2009/11/12
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Trevor Daniels, 2009/11/13
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Jonathan Kulp, 2009/11/11
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], David Kastrup, 2009/11/11
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Graham Percival, 2009/11/11
- Re: Quit [now definitely O/T], Carl Sorensen, 2009/11/11