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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With this reorganization, the Mozilla Foundation will look much more like the Apache Foundation than it currently does.
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We've broken the code base into logical chunks, called modules, and the foundation staff delegate authority for the modules to people with the most expertise.
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The formation of the Mozilla Corporation gives the Mozilla Foundation new capabilities for becoming even more successful in delivering innovative open-source, end-user products. 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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It is an effective model - more effective and certainly more disciplined and structured than many people realize.
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Over the history of the Mozilla project, it turns out that the product browsers exists on many different kinds of machines.
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We are so pleased to be named to Entrepreneur's prestigious and highly regarded Franchise 500. We appreciate being recognized as a strong and growing franchise and look forward to what this ranking will do for our business in the coming year.
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Well, there actually is a real effort underway right now with the development effort and a fair amount of planning and thinking.
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The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it's a restriction they can't live with.
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We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.
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We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy.
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The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.
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Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.
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I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.
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Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.