Mitchell Baker Quotes
- But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
- I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.
- 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.
- Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.
- 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.
- Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.
- The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.
- The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
- The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.
- 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.
- We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.
- We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
- We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.
- 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'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.
- Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.
- 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.
- 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.
- You have to raise funds somehow. And once there's money in the picture, money is great because we all need it to live on.
- 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.
- It is an effective model - more effective and certainly more disciplined and structured than many people realize.
- 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 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.
- The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.
- 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.
- 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.
- And the standards process can slow down development and implementation of new things.
- Over the history of the Mozilla project, it turns out that the product browsers exists on many different kinds of machines.
- The Mozilla project has always been a project trying to bring together open source developers with commercial software developers and distributors.
- The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.
- A lot of people start in the testing and quality assurance area because it's an easier way to get familiar with the project.
- With this reorganization, the Mozilla Foundation will look much more like the Apache Foundation than it currently does.
- The formation of the Mozilla Corporation gives the Mozilla Foundation new capabilities for becoming even more successful in delivering innovative open-source, end-user products. The Mozilla Corporation is not a typical commercial entity. Rather, it is dedicated to the public benefit goal at the heart of the Mozilla project, which is to keep the Internet open and available to everyone.
- [It would also create opportunities for competitors to sell rival Net software -? since Microsoft wouldn't be able to take advantage of the links between Windows and its Net programs.] We're not out to get Microsoft, ... Our goal is to offer people a better experience so the Web remains open, and people actually have a choice.
- What we have is 95 percent there and what we are doing at the moment is actually polishing.
- The Mozilla Corporation is not a typical commercial entity. Rather, it is dedicated to the public-benefit goal at the heart of the Mozilla project, which is to keep the Internet open and available to everyone.
- Open-source compliance is a big issue.
- We are so pleased to be named to Entrepreneur's prestigious and highly regarded Franchise 500. We appreciate being recognized as a strong and growing franchise and look forward to what this ranking will do for our business in the coming year.
- People sometimes ask if there are other features from which we could make money. The short answer is: We don't know. Perhaps search is the only feature that will both benefit users and generate this kind of revenue.
- I spent five or six months as a foreign student in
- Well, there actually is a real effort underway right now with the development effort and a fair amount of planning and thinking.
- Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.
- We're just over a year old but the Mozilla project has been around for a long time.
- I don't use Explorer.
- I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.
- We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.
- In addition to that, there has always been a very active volunteer community and an active set of people employed by other companies.
- We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
- But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
- 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.
- We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.
- The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
- Well, there actually is a real effort underway right now with the development effort and a fair amount of planning and thinking.
- 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.
- You have to raise funds somehow. And once there's money in the picture, money is great because we all need it to live on.
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