The Contributor/User Ratio Varies by Platform  by chromatic
Inkscape developer (and fellow PDXer) Bryce Harrington mused
about fixing critical bugs in Inkscape 0.46 to be in The paradox
of FOSS projects supporting Windows.  Unlike the philosophical
argument described in The Dubious Benefits of Porting FOSS to
Windows, Bryce makes a more concrete, more pragmatic argument.
In particular, the ratio of potential contributors to users on
non-free platforms is measurably smaller than the same ratio on
free platforms.  I've noticed this problem in some of my own
projects. There are plenty of users willing to try a piece of
software that may or may not work well on a non-free platform,
but when it comes time to debug and fix these problems, their
motivation goes away.  I'm sympathetic; it's not fun to try to
build and debug software on Windows. I don't use it. I don't
understand it. I'm not the person you want telling someone how
to install any of the free compilers that somehow don't come
bundled with Windows, just