Mitchell Baker Quotes

I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don`t want to live waking up everyday about revenge.

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

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

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.

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.

The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.

We have a very active testing community which people don`t often think about when you have open source.

In addition to that, there has always been a very active volunteer community and an active set of people employed by other companies.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

The goal of Firefox and Thunderbird is a new architecture which allows those products to be built separately, to remain separate products.

But very often people ask us if we`re in this for revenge or to go after Microsoft or if that`s what we think about, and the answer is no.

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.

Within that several-year time frame, if customers are interested in new features and maintenance, they should look at the new products and think about a migration strategy.

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

Well, there actually is a real effort underway right now with the development effort and a fair amount of planning and thinking.

The Mozilla project has always been a project trying to bring together open source developers with commercial software developers and distributors.

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

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