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Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community |
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Fri, 4 Mar 2016 08:09:00 -0800 |
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On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 04:49:00PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 12:32:20PM -0600, Alan Mead wrote:
> On 3/3/2016 11:54 AM, Mark Hancock wrote:
> > I actually do get the sense that the devs here care about the Windows
> > experience, but just don't have the resources to test it. It's also
> > been noted that all the devs use some Linux-based OS exclusively, and
> > because open source projects naturally are motivated by personal
> > priorities, there is an underlying tendency to notice and fix things
> > in Linux first.
>
> I agree (both with this comment and Mark's perception that PSPP could be
> seen as "GNU/Linux first").
>
>
> Well it certainly is true that fixing issues in GNU/Linux has a higher
> priority than fixing Windows issues. But that does not make PSPP a linux
> first project. If there is a "pecking order" it is something like this:
>
> 1: GNU
> 2: Other Free OSes (including GNU/Linux)
> 3: All other OSes (including Windows and some linux based ones)
>
> This, as Mark kindly posted, is the policy of GNU. PSPP is part of GNU.
This is somewhat theoretical, though. I do not know any PSPP users or
developers who run GNU on Hurd.
- Re: Warning on unreleased versions., (continued)
- Re: Warning on unreleased versions., Ben Pfaff, 2016/03/02
- Re: Warning on unreleased versions., Mark Hancock, 2016/03/03
- PSPP is not a "linux first" community, John Darrington, 2016/03/03
- Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community, Mark Hancock, 2016/03/03
- Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community, Ben Pfaff, 2016/03/03
- Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community, Alan Mead, 2016/03/03
- Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community, Frans Houweling, 2016/03/03
- Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community, Alan Mead, 2016/03/03
- Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community, Friedrich Beckmann, 2016/03/04
- Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community, John Darrington, 2016/03/04
- Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community,
Ben Pfaff <=
- Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community, John Darrington, 2016/03/04
- Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community, Ben Pfaff, 2016/03/04
- Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community, Alan Mead, 2016/03/04
- GLM [was Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community], John Darrington, 2016/03/06
Re: Warning on unreleased versions., Harry Thijssen, 2016/03/02