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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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" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you. "

" We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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 worked very hard to make extensions very simple. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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