Mitchell Baker quotes

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)

The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.

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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'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.

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

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

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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 web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.

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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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The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. (Mitchell Baker)

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

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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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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.

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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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You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.

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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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"Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech, and you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.

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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. (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.

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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.

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Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.

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Occupation: American Businesswoman
Born: 1957
Quotes count: 24
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