From: David Heinemeier Hansson Date: 2005-04-01T08:11:26+09:00 Subject: Re: Respect and Disappointment >> As an example of good fit, I don't think it's a surprise that pretty >> much all of the Rails core contributors are Mac users. > > Darn it.. you're going to make me contribute just to prove you wrong, > aren't you? Actually, we have a ton of patches coming from Windows users. But please do join the party :). By core, I was referring to people like Jeremy Kemper, Tobias Luekte, Florian Weber, Sam Stephenson, Jamis Buck, and Scott Baron that all have contributed substantial and continued parts of Rails. Enough to be considered core contributors. They are not the only core contributors, though. People like Marcel Molina and Nicholas Seckar are contributing from Linux. And we've had plenty of big and important patches from Windows users too. Not just code, but people like Curt Hibbs have been doing a great job documenting/evangelizing. So. Again. I don't hate Windows people :). I just don't understand the willful choice of that operating system in the defined context. And I'd wish more of them would switch. That should conclude my comments on the subject. -- David Heinemeier Hansson, http://www.basecamphq.com/ -- Web-based Project Management http://www.rubyonrails.org/ -- Web-application framework for Ruby http://www.loudthinking.com/ -- Broadcasting Brain