“ Your only other comment, made back in 2007, was basically telling people to get over 48% of Americans not believing in evolution, but rather in a creator. Yet you yourself seem unwilling to ignore the fairly trivial things that Mozilla has said and done that you disagree with.”
I am not upset with Mozilla or with the Firefox project itself. I think it is a fine product, and Mozilla does some great things. However, if I am going to go out of my way to use software because it advertises itself as a product to use because you value certain principles then I want that product to actually reflect my principles. In the case of Firefox it no longer matches my values.
So although Google doesn’t necessarily match my value system either I also don’t have to go out of my way to use Chrome either. But if Mozilla doesn’t understand that their actions do drive away a certain political point of view (the right) then that is their own choice. They don’t have to care about me or others that believe the way that I do. I accept that, but then they also shouldn’t wonder why they are bleeding users left and right (No pun intended). It’s one thing to make a conscience choice to target a certain demographic at the expense of others, but its quite another to alienate a huge percentage of your user base and not even understand that you have done so. That lack of self-awareness is rarely something that is remedied. I expect it to stay the same.
The whole point of the article was to ponder why people might be leaving. I said why I left and that is valid data (Anecdotally, but valid all the same). It can be used to better understand the problem of why people are leaving or it can be considered an outlier be ignored. Either way its just data. Do with it what you will.
