On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Ton Roosendaal <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Chad, > > I don't think this response justifies the careful and positive way everyone > who works on Blender is handling this topic. But I realize it might not be > well visible whether people who talk here are also contributing to Blender > though. > > Knowing all of the active devs here quite well, I can only ensure you they're > all very responsible, and proud to contribute to a program that runs on > nearly everything. > > But we have to cope with open source dynamics, which depends on the singular > fact that nothing happens without people contributing to it. That's > democratic & fair. > > For non-developers this 5 year guideline might seem arbitrary or unclear, but > for everyone who's been working - especially on support and bugs - it's a > growing frustration that we can't help people anymore using old hardware or > OSes. > > Also... developers and users also want the best product possible, utilizing > current hardware and OS developments. To balance this I proposed this > guideline, which still offers a far better platform support you'd get from > any commercial 3d software. Maya wouldn't even be supported 5 years ago on > systems we still do! > > At some moment people who are stuck in the past with hardware, also need to > accept they cannot get new software for it either. We will do our very best > here, but in cases where support is really impossible we can use the proposed > guideline to define what to do. > > Also note that effectively, for OSX our support level is less than 4 years > now. This is due to the fact Apple makes OSX upgrades available very cheap, > so nearly everyone's been switching to newer versions. > > -Ton-
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