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" The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate. "
Mitchell Baker
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" Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer. "
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" 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
" 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. "
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You
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" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
Health
Foundation
Support
" 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'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. "
Mitchell Baker
People
Broken
Authority
" I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done. "
Mitchell Baker
Actually
Where
Think
" You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs. "
Mitchell Baker
Own
Themes
You
" 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
" But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes. "
Mitchell Baker
Changes
Always
Difficult
" The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us. "
Mitchell Baker
Name
Source
Us
" I grew up as an only child. "
Mitchell Baker
Up
Grew
Child
" 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. "
Mitchell Baker
Project
Always
Development
" 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 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
" 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 have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. "
Mitchell Baker
Think
You
Testing
" We actually have a real community of people doing useful things. "
Mitchell Baker
Community
Doing
People
" Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space. "
Mitchell Baker
Technology
Foot
Product
" 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
" 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
" 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 invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy. "
Mitchell Baker
Keep
Want
Desktop
" When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that. "
Mitchell Baker
Secret
Point
High Point
" 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
" 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
" We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. "
Mitchell Baker
Extensions
Simple
Make
" People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume. "
Mitchell Baker
More
Create
People
" 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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" Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around. "
Mitchell Baker
Money
Any
Suspicious