Quotes by 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.
• We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.
• We have a very active testing community which people don't often think about when you have open source.
• We actually have a real community of people doing useful things.
• 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 organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate.
• The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity.
• 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.
• 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.
• Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.
• 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.
• I mean, who wants to live waking up... at least I don't want to live waking up everyday about revenge.
• But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
• The Mozilla Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization.
• 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.