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" The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. "
Mitchell Baker
Organization
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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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" 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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