Mostly I'm annoyed by the UI clutter. There's this extra *thing* in my Bookmarks menu and on my address/search bar. I've since figured out how to remove them, but in the future I would prefer these kinds of things to be opt-in rather than just put there whether I asked for it or not. Firefox does everything I need it to do. If there was some huge push for Pocket, sure, I could understand; but I don't even really get what Pocket does. It lets me save pages for later? Okay, isn't that what Bookmarks are for? I just don't see the justification.
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 4:03 AM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/06/15 04:22, Nicholas Nethercote wrote: > > What I'm saying is this: don't mix up the two arguments above. If > > you're really upset by the Pocket integration, it's almost certainly > > because of the first argument above, so don't get side-tracked by the > > second argument. > > Right. And the first argument is strange because this is not the first > time we've done this. Most of the bundled search engines, safe browsing > and (until recently) our location service are/were all commercial > third-party services with closed source back-ends. > > I know there are people out there who don't want to use any website > whose code is closed source, but I think they are pretty rare, as 99.9% > of websites are closed source. Mozilla has, more than a decade ago, made > a policy decision that linking to or integrating with services whose > backend is closed-source is OK, and that decision is not under review. > Trying to do otherwise would, IMO, make our product seriously > uncompetitive, which would not be good for the mission. (Note that > Mozilla's mission is not to make the entire web open _source_ anyway.) > > In creating any feature, Mozilla has to choose between partnering to get > it, or building it ourselves. And we can't build _everything_. A current > example is safe browsing, and a future example of something I think we'd > like to integrate that I doubt we can build is a translation service. > > Gerv > > -- This has been a message from Pope Sir RanDomino Nickelmaster KSC, Master Logistician, The Rail Gun of Sweet Reason, Schizophrenic Pragmatist, Dialectical Psychic, Fonz of Chaos, Disco Philosopher, Ranger of the Apocalypse _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
