Post by Warren PostPost by Jens SchuesslerAnd that was
my believe even before former developers of Opera on Linux came out and
said so.
Do you have URLs? I missed those statements and would like to read what
they had to say.
"At my previous employer, a small browser vendor that decided to abandon
its own rendering engine and browser stack, I stopped using our product
because Linux wasn't a priority. Numerous reasons were given, such as
low market share, “only geeks use it”, all journalists use Macs, &c.
This was to the point of ridiculing the platform and the people working
on it, frequently citing “Linux jokes” such as “you'll probably have to
recompile your kernel first” whenever the question was seriously raised
about when we'd start at least getting the core libraries working.
And when I say it wasn't a priority, I mean that we didn't even have
something that was in a compilable state. A few people had started
fixing up the broken code to get something that would compile on Linux
in their own free time. After a few weeks of hacking, they were told by
management to stop what they were doing and instead focus their
volunteer efforts on the project goals, being to ship a Windows and Mac
version.
So the company began the process of forcefully moving developers who'd
worked on Linux for over 15 years to platforms they felt uncomfortable
and unproductive working on.
This is a much longer tale, but it tells the story of a company
alienating not only their loyal user base, but also a significant
proportion of their own developers. The result? Lack of motivation and
resignations.
version."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7129955