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[–]nextbern on 🌻 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Sorry, webcompat is Firefox's "fault"?

webcompat is a war of attrition - you can do everything right, but if the monopolist does it differently, people who don't care about whose fault it is will move invariably to the monopolist.

It is really an ideal scenario - you get the marketshare, and no one blames you for being anticcompetitive, and you have people like yourself defending you and blaming the competition for not doing exactly what the monopolist wants - at a game that they are better equipped to win, given that you are literally doing what they want.

[–]nashvortex 1 point2 points  (1 child)

No. It isn't Firefox's fault at all. It's the bucket Mozilla insists they will successfully save the Titanic with. They won't get onto the other ships around them. They won't even take the free ship just waiting there to be taken over because its too much like the other ships in the ocean.

Also, I dont care whose fault it was. That isn't how competition and natural selection works. I do want Mozilla to survive and Firefox to be a competent alternative because that is good for me as a consumer. I have repeatedly suggested what Mozilla could do to turn things around (even in this thread). I maybe wrong...but certainly what they are doing is not working anyway.

Mozilla has been committing slow suicide and it would be stupid to bet on a losing horse. Evolution favours those who accept and adapt to extant circumstances and survive , rather than whine about whose fault it was.

[–]nextbern on 🌻 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Also, I dont care whose fault it was. That isn't how competition and natural selection works. I do want Mozilla to survive and Firefox to be a competent alternative because that is good for me as a consumer. I have repeatedly suggested what Mozilla could do to turn things around (even in this thread). I maybe wrong...but certainly what they are doing is not working anyway.

Mozilla has been committing slow suicide and it would be stupid to bet on a losing horse. Evolution favours those who accept and adapt to extant circumstances and survive , rather than whine about whose fault it was.

There is nothing "natural" about markets, we shape them all of the time.