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" We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. "
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'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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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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" 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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" We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears. "
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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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" We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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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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. "
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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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" 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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" Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space. "
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Product
" The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. "
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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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" 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 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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" 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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" 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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" 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 actually have a real community of people doing useful things. "
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" Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around. "
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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. "
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" The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. "
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