Mitchell Baker
Mitchell Baker
Winifred Mitchell Baker, better known simply as Mitchell Baker, is the Executive Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser and the Mozilla Thunderbird email client...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
build equality progress reflects society
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.
china era five foreign months six spent student
I spent five or six months as a foreign student in China many years ago and so going back in the new era was really exciting.
process slow standards
And the standards process can slow down development and implementation of new things.
elements flash great handled html serves
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.
answer ask benefit both features generate people perhaps search short users
People sometimes ask if there are other features from which we could make money. The short answer is: We don't know. Perhaps search is the only feature that will both benefit users and generate this kind of revenue.
funds great money raise
You have to raise funds somehow. And once there's money in the picture, money is great because we all need it to live on.
giant south type version
We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears.
base user
We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy.
deal people
The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.
beyond goes memory putting
Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.
life personal separate
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.
smarter sometime technology
Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you.
accepting fewer greater requires saving shared whatever
Saving the Internet requires a greater sense of shared ownership and fewer bystanders accepting whatever today's Internet has to offer.
enterprise foot mozilla partly silicon social technology valley
Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space.