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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We're just over a year old but the Mozilla project has been around for a long time.
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The Mozilla project has always been a project trying to bring together open source developers with commercial software developers and distributors.
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The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
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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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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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There are dancers and painters and writers who pursued that whether or not they are paid for it. There are a lot of technologists who are the same.
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With this reorganization, the Mozilla Foundation will look much more like the Apache Foundation than it currently does.
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It is an effective model - more effective and certainly more disciplined and structured than many people realize.
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Over the history of the Mozilla project, it turns out that the product browsers exists on many different kinds of machines.
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We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.
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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.
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Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.
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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.