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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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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When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it.
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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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But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
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The goal of Firefox and Thunderbird is a new architecture which allows those products to be built separately, to remain separate products.
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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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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.
base user
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.