> ... to improve the product. That phrase can be viewed in many different ways, depending upon who the decision makers setting the goals are. > If anything,

> ... to improve the product. That phrase can be viewed in many different ways, depending upon who the decision makers setting the goals are. > If anything, it may have made Mozilla more confident in removing it ... Of course. People know this, that's a good part of why people are against metrics. It leads to dumbed down software, as there's always a 5% of features that can be cut (on every budget or dev iteration) to "focus more on the majority uses!".