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by twymer 5466 days ago
The concern is coming because Mozilla announced that they will soon stop supporting Firefox 4 and the enterprise has a problem with this.

Personally, I'm fully supportive of this. I feel that as the browser world is rapidly changing along with HTML5/CSS3, there's not much room to continue supporting (and thus encouraging continued use of) old browser versions.

If gaining support of the corporate world (which Mozilla has never had much luck getting into) means leaving developers, support and security resources working on old products this really isn't surprising.
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girishmony 5466 days ago
As I said in the blog post, there may be solid reasons behind Asa's comment. But its not the way to express it. Am I correct?
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rauljara 5466 days ago
If mozilla genuinely does not consider enterprise a priority, would you really prefer them to give you some bullshit where they pretended it was?

I think the explicit honesty would be pretty helpful for a sysadmin who needs to make decisions about which technology to use. Yeah, it's blunt, but the bluntness does a pretty good job of not encouraging false hope. Obviously the sysadmin would prefer support, but mozilla just gave a very clear and understandable reason why that shouldn't be their priority.

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sonnekki 5466 days ago
I think it was the most honest way he could have described it. Every day that passes I experience more cases where being honest is not the right thing to say, in the corporate world, because of politics.

I have a problem with that.

He's making it clear that Firefox is not an enterprise solution. What's wrong with that?

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hammerdr 5466 days ago
Software delivery is changing. Heavily influenced by web-based software and easy delivery mechanisms (App Store, Steam, soon-to-be-Windows App Store), we are moving into a software delivery and support system of latest and greatest only.

This is at odds with the standard operating procedure of large corporations. What Mozilla seems to be saying is that they no longer support the old way of doing things because they think the new way is better (and I agree with them).

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