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" 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
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" I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge. "
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" 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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" We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy. "
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" You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around. "
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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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" Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me. "
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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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" 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
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You
Your
" 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
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Throw
See
" 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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Broken
Authority
" 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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Sense
Internet
Offer
" 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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Web
Want
Things
" 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
" We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. "
Mitchell Baker
Extensions
Simple
Make
" 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
Fair
End
" 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
" The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. "
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Organization
Foundation
Independent
" 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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Last
Product
Got
" The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen. "
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Most Powerful
Powerful
" 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. "
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Terrible
Bad
" The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us. "
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Source
Us
" We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. "
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Testing
" People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume. "
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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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You
" 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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You
Privacy
" 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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Internet
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