Comment by gsich
3 hours ago
[2] was anticipatory obedience from Mozilla. Good for them that they grew a spine later (or more likely: they knew that Google will implement it some time later, so the change of opinion cost them nothing).
3 hours ago
[2] was anticipatory obedience from Mozilla. Good for them that they grew a spine later (or more likely: they knew that Google will implement it some time later, so the change of opinion cost them nothing).
This is mental gymnastics. If Mozilla were following Google's orders we would not need to resort to phrases like "anticipatory obedience" to describe a neutral non-position; if they were following Google's orders, they would have simply endorsed it, end of story, and then they would have revoked that endorsement in lockstep with Google as well, which they didn't.