Re: My usability experience - Asa Dotzler should be fired

On Aug 17, 11:04 pm, Asa Dotzler <[email protected]> wrote:
> That being said, there are clearly a few people making good arguments
> for why the version number should be removed. I'm trying to respond to
> those. I'm mostly not responding to the "rapid releases suck" or "you
> suck because you're not making an enterprise product" comments and I'm
> certainly not responding to the death threats, comparisons to Hitler or
> the suggestions that I be forcibly castrated :) I've got way more
> important things to do than that.

In other words, you are responding to those who "agree" with you and
ignoring
the rest.  Whether you like it or not the above post IS in fact a
RESPONSE.

A very insulting one.

We have tried to make the point that Firefox has been enormously
powerful
and beneficial in our effort to make the web world a better place.  We
have
tried to make the point that this "symptom of a problem" which you
call an
"idea" is just that a symptom that the underlying strategy is
misguided and
is affecting the more influential constituents in the community in an
adverse
way.

Yes you have a "few dozen" so-called "power users" here... but you
don't
know us.  We are many.  I represent dozens if not hundreds of
developers
and professionals who use your product but have "way more important
things
to do than" argue with you and your organization about what is best
for us.
I am personally responsible for no less than 200 conversions to FF
from
IE, by now the number may very well be more than 1000 (or more).
Thank
for providing us in the PAST with a product that met that need.

It took Mozilla MONTHS to even restart the Enterprise Working Group,
and
even now it appears their influence is more to "placate" the press
than to
actually effect core change.  After seeing the attitudes you
(personally) have
displayed in the press and elsewhere, you will be hard pressed to get
much
interest from those of us with better things to do.

It might behoove you to stifle it a bit before you destroy what little
credibility
we have left in "professional" circles when we advocate Firefox.

Because you aren't alone in your stature any more.
(and you can take that to the bank)