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" 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. "

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" 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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" 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. "

" I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge. "

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

" I grew up as an only child. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs. "

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

" 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. "

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

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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. "

" We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.' "

" 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. "

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