Mitchell Baker Quotes (33 Quotes)


    It would also create opportunities for competitors to sell rival Net software - since Microsoft wouldn't be able to take advantage of the links between Windows and its Net programs. We're not out to get Microsoft, ... Our goal is to offer people a better experience so the Web remains open, and people actually have a choice.

    We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.

    I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

    Well, there actually is a real effort underway right now with the development effort and a fair amount of planning and thinking.

    The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.


    Over the history of the Mozilla project, it turns out that the product browsers exists on many different kinds of machines.

    There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

    We've always been the development project that lived in a time pressured setting and always where commercial entities were relying heavily on releases in a certain time frame.

    Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.

    We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

    We're just over a year old but the Mozilla project has been around for a long time.

    The Mozilla project has always been a project trying to bring together open source developers with commercial software developers and distributors.

    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.

    It is an effective model - more effective and certainly more disciplined and structured than many people realize.

    We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.

    But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

    In addition to that, there has always been a very active volunteer community and an active set of people employed by other companies.

    The goal of Firefox and Thunderbird is a new architecture which allows those products to be built separately, to remain separate products.

    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.

    People notice it and they help you participate and see your work included in this project and when we ship our browser, you and millions of other people get to see the fruits of your efforts.

    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.

    The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

    There are dancers and painters and writers who pursued that whether or not they are paid for it. There are a lot of technologists who are the same.

    The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.

    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.

    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.

    Of course, it's hard to support full-time programmers, so we do get funds from a set of companies that are interested in the health of the Mozilla project and so are willing to support the people working for the Foundation as well.

    Many people think that open source projects are sort of chaotic and and anarchistic. They think that developers randomly throw code at the code base and see what sticks.


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