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" We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. "
Mitchell Baker
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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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" The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen. "
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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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" I grew up as an only child. "
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" People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume. "
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" 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. "
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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 worked very hard to make extensions very simple. "
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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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" 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. "
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" When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that. "
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" 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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" 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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End
" 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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" But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes. "
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Difficult
" Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space. "
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" The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us. "
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" 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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" Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me. "
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" You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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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" The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. "
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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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" 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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" 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! "
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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. "
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