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Mozilla of course has every right to determine how it wants to allocate its resources... but to me, this action speaks loudly that you cannot really count on th

by adamc 10y ago

Mozilla of course has every right to determine how it wants to allocate its resources... but to me, this action speaks loudly that you cannot really count on them to stay the course. So, from an outsider perspective, every initiative must be analyzed skeptically, since they may leave you holding the bag. This is always true to a degree, but the more true you think it is, the less likely you are to jump onto said initiatives.

coldtea 10y ago
>This is always true to a degree, but the more true you think it is, the less likely you are to jump onto said initiatives. While I'm sad since I can't now run Firefox OS on my OpenMoko phone, while listening to my ogg vorbis files and rocking Chandler, the revolutionary PIM app and posting updates to Diaspora, this should have been the conclusion from the beginning. It was pretty clear that nothing much was ever gonna come out of it.
- sutro 10y ago
  This comment is a stone cold classic.
- walterbell 10y ago
  Chandler (epic distraction) may have wandered off into the sunset but people are still running predecessors Lotus Agenda (DOS era) and Ecco Pro (Win 95 era) to this day. Ecco Pro has even been binary patched to enable Lua scripting. The computer industry has many commercial failures that shipped elements of technical excellence.
JadeNB 10y ago
> this action speaks loudly that you cannot really count on them to stay the course. To be fair, on whom can you count? Although Google has had a success with Android, my impression is that the ground is littered with the projects that it advertised heavily but then left behind, abandoned, or killed.
- JoeAltmaier 10y ago
  The entire panorama of Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of things tried and abandoned. I think that's the nature of software.
Twirrim 10y ago
> This is always true to a degree, but the more true you think it is, the less likely you are to jump onto said initiatives. It's certainly the reason I've never paid Firefox OS any attention (and it's a lot of why I won't even look at most things coming out of Google). If leadership aren't aware of this general "meh" attitude, they really should be.

by adamc 10y ago

coldtea 10y ago

>This is always true to a degree, but the more true you think it is, the less likely you are to jump onto said initiatives. While I'm sad since I can't now run Firefox OS on my OpenMoko phone, while listening to my ogg vorbis files and rocking Chandler, the revolutionary PIM app and posting updates to Diaspora, this should have been the conclusion from the beginning. It was pretty clear that nothing much was ever gonna come out of it.

sutro 10y ago
This comment is a stone cold classic.
walterbell 10y ago
Chandler (epic distraction) may have wandered off into the sunset but people are still running predecessors Lotus Agenda (DOS era) and Ecco Pro (Win 95 era) to this day. Ecco Pro has even been binary patched to enable Lua scripting. The computer industry has many commercial failures that shipped elements of technical excellence.

JadeNB 10y ago

> this action speaks loudly that you cannot really count on them to stay the course. To be fair, on whom can you count? Although Google has had a success with Android, my impression is that the ground is littered with the projects that it advertised heavily but then left behind, abandoned, or killed.

JoeAltmaier 10y ago
The entire panorama of Silicon Valley is littered with the corpses of things tried and abandoned. I think that's the nature of software.

Twirrim 10y ago

> This is always true to a degree, but the more true you think it is, the less likely you are to jump onto said initiatives. It's certainly the reason I've never paid Firefox OS any attention (and it's a lot of why I won't even look at most things coming out of Google). If leadership aren't aware of this general "meh" attitude, they really should be.