&gt; Don&#x27;t be disingenuous.<p>I&#x27;m absolutely <i>not</i> being disingenuous. As I said, I am -in fact- not making a comparison between the situation with Mozilla and my hypothetical statement.<p>As I stated, I&#x27;m illustrating the general point that it <i>often</i> pays to keep track of when an entity has wronged you so you can weigh their current attempts at reconciliation against their history of wrongs.<p>Remember also that I was replying to the following statement:<p>&gt; This kind of negativity is really common on HN and it makes me sad. ... &quot;This group of people did something I don&#x27;t like, and then they changed their mind and stopped doing it. But rather than being happy about fixing their mistake, I&#x27;m going to keep criticizing them for making the mistake in the first place.&quot;<p>I address the author&#x27;s misconceptions in the first &#x27;graph of my reply.