Re: Linux and Software Freedom
Dao <[email protected]>
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On Aug 17, 6:36 pm, Asa Dotzler <[email protected]> wrote: > Dao wrote: > > On Aug 17, 5:33 am, Asa Dotzler<[email protected]> wrote: > >> There's a perfect example up-thread where a user didn't know if he was > >> up to date when he had Firefox 5.0 installed but Google or some news > >> report or some friend told him they had 5.0.1. It turns out that 5.0.1 > >> was only available for Mac and 5.0 was the most up to date version of > >> Firefox for Windows, and that particular user, at the time. > > > Except that mozilla.com offered Firefox 5.0.1 to Windows users -- it > > simply shouldn't have done that. > > As a download, yes, not as an update. Confusion abounds. Even if Mozilla > had not made the download available, something that was sort of required > by our release mechanics, we'd still have the confusion. If our release mechanics require us to act stupidly, we should fix that. I don't think the confusion would have been nearly as big.