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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. "

Mitchell Baker

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Always

Development

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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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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I grew up as an only child. "

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" The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer. "

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

" 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. "

" We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy. "

" When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that. "