Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes

Re:Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes by binaryjay on Thursday September 17, 2020 @04:54PM (#24509830)

It's absolutely amazing how some people can find new ways to blame Google for something they had nothing to do with. Just Incredible. Additionally, if it had not been for the money given to Mozilla by Google the development of Firefox would have severely been in decline and possibly abandoned.

>And this is why we all should have shouted louder when Google set this precedent five years ago.

Do you also shout loud when Microsoft set a precedent for shutting down products and services? Of course you don't. You just confine your rage to Google. Let's have a look at all of the products and services Microsoft has cancelled:

https://pastebin.com/PMQwd8Q0

Let that sink in next time you do a drive by on a Google related topic and post one of those lame "I wonder when it will be cancelled" worthless posts.

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Re:Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes by basch on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:30PM (#24510189)

Microsoft is the anti-example. They discontinue something and then support it for years. Sometimes way longer than they should.

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Re:Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes by hinkley on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:57PM (#24510460)

I took it to include the EEE era, probably because the question doesn’t track unless you do.

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Re:Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes by DigitalSea on Thursday September 17, 2020 @10:03PM (#24512214)

Mixer sends its regards...

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Re:Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes by MauranKilom on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:39PM (#24510277)

Your argument would be stronger if that list was actually products and services. Listing every MS store ever closed and every platform or every version of a no-longer-sold product line makes it meaningless.

I mean, that list has MS-DOS. To which we still have backwards compatibility. And it's twice as old as Google.

Also, tone.

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Re:Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes by hinkley on Thursday September 17, 2020 @05:50PM (#24510374)

> Do you also shout loud when Microsoft set a precedent for shutting down products and services?

Relentlessly. If you get me talking about MS you won’t be able to get me to shut up.

They’re a bully who was never broken and that just invites more bullies.

Whatever tiny power I have to prevent another Microsoft from ever happening again, I will happily use it, and proactively. I think you’ll find that some of the “unfair” venom FB, Google and Amazon get is from people who feel the same way. Take them down a notch while they’re still in arm’s reach.

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Re:Update on Firefox Send and Firefox Notes by dundercoder on Friday September 18, 2020 @07:24PM (#24522844)

Boy that list brings back memories. Front page, bob, zune...

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