El 10/05/12 00:15, Asa Dotzler escribió:

Summit is a meeting for 500 people, and our community a way bigger. Most communities are creating around open source/linux enthusiasts, I can speak about the Mozilla Hispano and European communities I know where the vast majority uses linux.

As Santiago mentioned, "The number of Linux users in the community don't necessarily determine the number of Linux hackers", we can ask for help finding these hackers to the community.

Also I think that one of the great things about mozilla is that now we have money to spend hiring people in areas we think are important and where we need people working full-time to help volunteers.

The problem here is that some people don't consider that spreading money or resources on Linux support it's good due it's market share and I think that's not good. If we have the possibility to do whatever we can to support an OS which share our values and that most people that empowers mozilla use, we should do it, as we did in the past supporting for example Theora and Xiph.org even its market share was tiny.

This seems to most volunteers as a Business-minded strategy and completely opposite to our values. Linux is very important for mozilla and for the volunteers in particular. How are we suppose to defend or present a technology we can't run on our laptops?

If we lose linux supporters, we'll lose the passion and mozillians which are behind, and that would have a big and negative impact to the whole project. Can you imagine mozilla without all open source and linux supporters? I can't because that wouldn't be mozilla as we know it anymore.

Regards.