Quotes by Mitchell Baker

About Mitchell Baker:

Winifred Mitchell Baker is the Executive Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and CEO 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.
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The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

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The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.

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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.

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

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

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We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

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But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.

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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.

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We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live.

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

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We do care about control and privacy. It's one of the reasons we are so focused on having our systems be open source, so you or someone technically savvy you know can verify what the software is doing.

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I grew up as an only child.

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WorldGate offers interactive set-top-box applications. Its customers want to interact with the Web as an adjunct to other things they can do, and WorldGate allows that through the layout engine in Mozilla, called Gecko.

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People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

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

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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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We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.

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Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.

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Author Bio

  • NameMitchell Baker
  • DescriptionChairwoman; former CEO
  • AliasesWinifred Mitchell Baker
  • Born1957
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionLawyer
  • AwardsAnita Borg Institute Women Of Vision Awards; EFF Pioneer Award