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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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" The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen. "

" Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you. "

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

" IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn't do much with it. "

" We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. "

" People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume. "

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" I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done. "

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

" I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that. "

" When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that. "

" Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren't. "

" The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us. "

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" I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable. "

" 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. "

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

" We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy. "

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

" WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko. "

" The good news is, being a digital citizen comes naturally to many of us once we get the opportunity - human beings have been taking things apart and putting them back together throughout history. "

" Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer. "

" I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple! "