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.
Some people are really drawn to technology and I liken them to artists.
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.
But I think it's always difficult when a product that you're using and accustomed to changes.
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.
Money tends to make people suspicious, if there's any money floating around.
Tech, in the sense of... putting things together, that goes back beyond memory for me.
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.
We will not build a society that reflects who we are and that has opportunities for equality or justice if we don't make progress for all participants.
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.
Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space.
The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.
The question of trademark is pretty unsettled in the open source world. The trademark is important in a consumer product, but there are a few groups who feel it's a restriction they can't live with.
We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live.
You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.
When we got ready to ship out Firefox 1.0, the last set of things we did was to make it appealing to a consumer, to add the polish of a world-class product to it.
The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us.
Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.
