Re: Linux and Software Freedom

Dao <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.ui
Organization http://groups.google.com
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
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