This part made me laugh -
Unfortunately, this intent was lost in the brevity of information supplied and the medium of communication.
As an organization, we didn’t meet our own standards of openness and discourse for a change of this magnitude, and we’ll continue to work to improve how we communicate to ensure we make our intentions clear with everyone from the start.
Yeah, how could Mozilla have ever have thought that if you write -
As part of Firefox great-or-dead, we've decided to stop support for "heavyweight" themes which can do arbitrary styling and replace chrome packages.
We may simply remove that support completely, or we may extend lightweight themes with some additional features such as changing colors or icons.
...that people would somehow bizarrely interpret that as meaning -
As part of Firefox great-or-dead, we've decided to stop support for "heavyweight" themes which can do arbitrary styling and replace chrome packages.
We may simply remove that support completely, or we may extend lightweight themes with some additional features such as changing colors or icons.
As for this '
we must try to do better in the future' stuff, change the record already. That line may have worked for some Southern States preacher caught with his pants round his ankles in the 1980's, but there really is a definable limit when these phrases become meaningless. Btw, drop the
'burn with fire' stuff as well, it makes you sound like children.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (attrib.)
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