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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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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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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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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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.
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If you're a Firefox user, you get accustomed to your history and the URL bar and finding things. That should be available on your mobile phone as well.
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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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In addition to that, there has always been a very active volunteer community and an active set of people employed by other companies.
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But very often people ask us if we're in this for revenge or to go after Microsoft or if that's what we think about, and the answer is no.
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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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And the standards process can slow down development and implementation of new things.
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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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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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The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'
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People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.