On 10/03/14 18:14, Greg Grossmeier wrote:
<quote name="Steven Walling" date="2014-03-10" time="17:47:56 +0000"> > On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg@wikimedia.org> wrote: > >> There's a lot of changes in Typography Refresh. One of the many is the >> font css rule. The majority are changes that do not implicate the >> Freeness of anything. The font does. The font change (originally) only >> had a benefit to Mac OS users (right?). >> > No. Awesome.
Indeed. But what are/were the benefits on the others, then?
This is not an accurate or fair representation. This kind of attitude ("all designers care about is OSX") is the kind of pernicious meme that drives good designers away from working on free software projects. It's akin to saying "women don't participate in $free_project because they aren't interested in working on free software".
I don't think you meant to use that comparison - the second statement is generally true, though it may vary by project - unless you are saying that if one sets ideologies and political correctness aside, the design team here really does only care about macs? Because I don't think that's the case.
But how would saying "all designers care about is OS X" even drive good designers away, exactly? Like FOSS advocates accused of only caring about Linux, if they truly stand behind their ideals, I would expect them to take it as a challenge, and prove it wrong.
-I