Mitchell Baker
Mitchell Baker
Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker, is the Executive Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
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What we have is 95 percent there and what we are doing at the moment is actually polishing.
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Within that several-year time frame, if customers are interested in new features and maintenance, they should look at the new products and think about a migration strategy.
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We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.
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You have to raise funds somehow. And once there's money in the picture, money is great because we all need it to live on.
When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that.
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I spent five or six months as a foreign student in China many years ago and so going back in the new era was really exciting.
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People sometimes ask if there are other features from which we could make money. The short answer is: We don't know. Perhaps search is the only feature that will both benefit users and generate this kind of revenue.
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And the standards process can slow down development and implementation of new things.
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The Mozilla project has always been a project trying to bring together open source developers with commercial software developers and distributors.
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The Mozilla Corporation is not a typical commercial entity. Rather, it is dedicated to the public-benefit goal at the heart of the Mozilla project, which is to keep the Internet open and available to everyone.
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Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.
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A lot of people start in the testing and quality assurance area because it's an easier way to get familiar with the project.
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We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears.
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I mean, we're here to try and do something useful and help keep the Internet something fun and useful for us and have a good time while we're at it.