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" Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space. "
Mitchell Baker
Technology
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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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" 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. "
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" We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. "
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" Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you. "
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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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" Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around. "
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Any
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" We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live. "
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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. "
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People
" We carry around computers in our pockets. Many people barely use them as phones. We use them as computers. If you think about the future, when you're traveling around, it's great to have a lightweight, small form factor. "
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Small
Great
" 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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Think
Throw
See
" 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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Humanity
Internet
Potential
" 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. "
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Project
Always
Development
" When people think of Mozilla, they generally think of the browser, but Mozilla is really much more than that. Mozilla is of interest to people who want an end-user application like our browser that's not tied directly into the Windows platform. "
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More
Like
People
" 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! "
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I Am
Need
Unhappy
" I grew up as an only child. "
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Up
Grew
Child
" When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that. "
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Secret
Point
High Point
" 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. "
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Interesting
Technology
Good
" We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy. "
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Keep
Want
Desktop
" 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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Phone
You
Your
" But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes. "
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Changes
Always
Difficult
" 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. "
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Health
Foundation
Support
" The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. "
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Organization
Foundation
Independent
" 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. "
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Want
Things
" Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists. "
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Some People
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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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Question
World
" We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. "
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Make
" 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. "
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Opportunity
Together
" The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us. "
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Name
Source
Us