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Re:Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job by britta on Sunday February 01, 2015 @07:40PM (#8982265)
Saying that these problems look like bug reports is dismissive of the depth of the problems. Stopping development of products and removing access to features isn't unintentional, and a lot of people have already complained about each of these problems over the years. Andy's article is making a larger point that what has happened to these products is part of a pattern, that Google is not being as responsible in stewarding its information as its mission statement said it would try to be.
Re:Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job by asuffield on Monday February 02, 2015 @03:54AM (#8983292)
> Saying that these problems look like bug reports is dismissive of the depth of the problems.

Personally I completely disagree with your priorities. I think a bug report is far more valuable, since people can act on bug reports and make things better, while I would not anticipate any meaningful action as a result of speculation about mission statements.

Re:Never trust a corporation to do a library’s job by joepie91_ on Monday February 02, 2015 @10:39PM (#8988732)
That makes me wonder why the Chromium bugtracker appears to effectively be a black hole, if the bug reports are so "valuable". I don't think I've ever gotten a single response to my CSS calculation bug report.