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Ian Bicking has confirmed that Mozilla has quietly shut down Mozilla Labs.
This development raises some interesting questions about the future of Mozilla and their products:
With Firefox's usage declining, with Firefox on Android seeing limited uptake, with Firefox not being available on iOS, with Thunderbird stagnating, with SeaMonkey remaining as irrelevant as ever, with Firefox OS suffering from poor reviews and little adoption, and now with a reduction in innovation due to the closure of Mozilla Labs, does Mozilla have any hope of remaining relevant as time goes on?
Will Mozilla be able to reignite the spark that originally allowed them to create products like Firefox and Thunderbird that were, at one time, wildly popular and innovative?
Is Mozilla still capable of innovating without Mozilla Labs, or will they slowly fade into irrelevance as the last remaining users of their products move on to other offerings from competitors?
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday September 21 2014, @04:11AM
You are basically saying, "Bigotry is bad, but it's okay for me to engage in it." or "Intolerance is bad, unless it's something I don't like." It's all so absurd.
"I want people to have equal rights" is absurd?
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(Score: 2) by khallow on Sunday September 21 2014, @08:21AM
Who said that? Instead, what we have is:
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As the original poster stated, some views are better than others. And as a result, it is just fine to hound bigots.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday September 21 2014, @09:05AM
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(Score: 2) by khallow on Sunday September 21 2014, @11:24AM
You asked a leading question for a statement no one made or disputed.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday September 21 2014, @04:50PM
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(Score: 2) by khallow on Monday September 22 2014, @02:38AM
You put the following in quotes: "I want people to have equal rights" Who said that? As I noted, nobody in the thread has made that statement. So you started your contribution to this thread with false pretenses, claiming that someone somewhere merely stated an uncontroversial statement.
In context, you're accusing an Anonymous Coward of stating the above quote was absurd. But what he actually wrote was:
So to summarize, you wrote a leading question based on a straw man. Now, you're indignant that somehow my accurate summary of your actions is "not true" and I "know it", belittling it as "word-smithing". Well, maybe you should have written something other than what you wrote and treat other posters' arguments fairly and without that grostesque misrepresentation. Then this "word-smithing" wouldn't be such a problem.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Monday September 22 2014, @03:19AM
You put the following in quotes: "I want people to have equal rights" Who said that?
The people he was mis-describing.
Well, maybe you should have written something other than what you wrote and treat other posters' arguments fairly and without that grostesque misrepresentation.
He mis-characterized the view and I corrected him and you knew that's what I was doing.
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(Score: 2) by khallow on Monday September 22 2014, @04:52AM
Maybe you ought to go back to that post and actually argue that rather than play silly rhetorical games? Please include your reasoning too for why you think that description was inaccurate. We don't automagically know what you are thinking.
Right, "corrected". We still don't know what was supposed to be inaccurate about the AC's characterization, especially given what chris.alex.thomas actually wrote. And I still don't know what in the world you are thinking. For example, you could just be disingenuously trolling away. Or you could have genuine psychological problems that cripple your understanding of others' viewpoints. Maybe more than one thing applies. I can't say.
But your continued insistence on knowing better than me what I think and believe is getting rather bizarre.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Monday September 22 2014, @05:33AM
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