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But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
Mitchell Baker 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. Mitchell Baker 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. 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 In addition to that, there has always been a very active volunteer community and an active set of people employed by other companies. 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 Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around. 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 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 Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists. Mitchell Baker The goal of Firefox and Thunderbird is a new architecture which allows those products to be built separately, to remain separate products. Mitchell Baker The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization. Mitchell Baker The Mozilla project has always been a project trying to bring together open source developers with commercial software developers and distributors. Mitchell Baker The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity. Mitchell Baker The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate. Mitchell Baker 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. 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 actually have a real community of people doing useful things. Mitchell Baker We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source. Mitchell Baker We worked very hard to make extensions very simple. 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 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 Well, there actually is a real effort underway right now with the development effort and a fair amount of planning and thinking. Mitchell Baker 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. Mitchell Baker |
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