About businesses which support older versions of Free Software?

[Bradley M. Kuhn]

Marco Fioretti <m.fioretti at inwind.it> wrote:

> I just wanted to ask if you or anybody else is collecting information
> about who is doing the opposite, i.e. modify or repackage latest
> versions of Free Software so it runs on older hardware.

Actually, that would be of interest to me as well, but I don't have any
information on it.

> Both efforts make free software available to people who can afford only
> very low end computers, but in the second case they can use state of the
> art applications.

I agree, both are important.

> I just started on savannah a project to do just that. Please look
> at http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/rule/, and also at the Linux
> Journal article linked from there, which explains all the backgrounds

Thanks, I will take a look at your project!

   -- bkuhn
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