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First, you're going anachronistic. They didn't write "telemetry bug". Secondly, "cause" doesn't automatically mean "root cause". (That's the entire reason we

by cxr 5y ago

First, you're going anachronistic. They didn't write "telemetry bug". Secondly, "cause" doesn't automatically mean "root cause". (That's the entire reason we distinguish between the two by qualifying the latter to begin with.) It's perfectly reasonable to say "A caused B" even if the root cause lies elsewhere, with C. Thirdly, none of this matters. It has no impact on the point being made by the person you responded to, which—to repeat—is that: > It should be impossible for the phrase "the recent Firefox outage" to make sense.

dralley 5y ago
>It should be impossible for the phrase "the recent Firefox outage" to make sense. It makes perfect sense a world where half the internet is going through Google / Cloudflare / Amazon /Akamai servers or some combination of the above, and they decide to roll out brand-spanking-new protocols to half of the internet at once. Sometimes that's going to break clients. I don't like that world very much, but it's the one we live in.