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. – Mitchell Baker
I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done. – Mitchell Baker
I mean, who wants to live waking up… at least I don’t want to live waking up everyday about revenge. – Mitchell Baker
Humanity is smart. Sometime in the technology world we think we are smarter, but we are not smarter than you. – Mitchell Baker
Tech, in the sense of… putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me. – Mitchell Baker
But I think it’s always difficult when a product that you’re using and accustomed to changes. – Mitchell Baker
We have a very active testing community which people don’t often think about when you have open source. – Mitchell Baker
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. – Mitchell Baker
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. – Mitchell Baker
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. – Mitchell Baker
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. – Mitchell Baker
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. – Mitchell Baker
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. – Mitchell Baker
I’m a good communicator, and I’m a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary – things like that. – Mitchell Baker
Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space. – Mitchell Baker
IE6 was a bad experience for consumers, but it was a terrible for developers. Not only it was technically bad, but it was closed, and you couldn’t do much with it. – Mitchell Baker
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. – Mitchell Baker
The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate. – Mitchell Baker
I’ve learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable. – Mitchell Baker