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" The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. "
Mitchell Baker
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" So many commercial orgs have software where you can come and modify it, but they still control everything. And what's controlled is very clearly what's good for their business, or if they're more progressive, their view of what's good for the Internet. "
Mitchell Baker
Good
Business
Control
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
Last
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Got
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
You
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Bad
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
You
Fair
End
" Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists. "
Mitchell Baker
People
Some People
Technology
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
Think
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See
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
Live
Question
World
" We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears. "
Mitchell Baker
Think
American
Type
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
See
Work
You
" The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.' "
Mitchell Baker
Humanity
Internet
Potential
" But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes. "
Mitchell Baker
Changes
Always
Difficult
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
History
Opportunity
Together
" I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me. "
Mitchell Baker
Me
Personal
Find
" 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! "
Mitchell Baker
I Am
Need
Unhappy
" The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. "
Mitchell Baker
Organization
Foundation
Independent
" We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing. "
Mitchell Baker
Care
You
Privacy
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
Equality
Progress
Society
" The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate. "
Mitchell Baker
Find
Way
People
" Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do. "
Mitchell Baker
Job
You
Respect
" I grew up as an only child. "
Mitchell Baker
Up
Grew
Child
" People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume. "
Mitchell Baker
More
Create
People
" We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. "
Mitchell Baker
Think
You
Testing
" Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you. "
Mitchell Baker
World
Technology
You
" We actually have a real community of people doing useful things. "
Mitchell Baker
Community
Doing
People
" Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me. "
Mitchell Baker
Together
Memory
Me
" When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that. "
Mitchell Baker
Secret
Point
High Point
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
Phone
You
Your
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
People
Internet
Notes
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
Think
Small
Great
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
Long
Great
Tools