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
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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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The Mozilla Corporation is not a typical commercial entity. Rather, it is dedicated to the public-benefit goal at the heart of the Mozilla project, which is to keep the Internet open and available to everyone.
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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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I mean, we're here to try and do something useful and help keep the Internet something fun and useful for us and have a good time while we're at it.
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The formation of the Mozilla Corporation gives the Mozilla Foundation new capabilities for becoming even more successful in delivering innovative open-source, end-user products. The Mozilla Corporation is not a typical commercial entity. Rather, it is dedicated to the public benefit goal at the heart of the Mozilla project, which is to keep the Internet open and available to everyone.
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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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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.
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And the standards process can slow down development and implementation of new things.
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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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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.
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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.
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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 invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy.
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The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.