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Mitchell Baker is an American executive best known for her role as the CEO and chairwoman of Mozilla Corporation. Under her leadership, Mozilla has become a major player in the tech industry with its flagship Firefox browser. Baker's career in technology and advocacy for open-source software has significantly shaped the internet landscape.
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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."

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

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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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"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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"The Mozilla project is big in terms of lines of code and complexity."

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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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"The organization is a way for people to find us and deal with us and know how we operate."

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

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"We actually have a real community of people doing useful things."

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"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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