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Mozilla admits that Firefox EULA is flawed

Following the concerns expressed by the Ubuntu community over the Firefox EULA, Mitchell Baker, Chairperson of Mozilla, has admitted that there may be no need for the browser to have an EULA and an open source license. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Tags: Mitchell Baker, License Agreement, Mozilla Firefox, Open Source, EULA, Mozilla Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-09-16

A clean hand-off at Mozilla

As in a relay race, the key to a successful enterprise is often the hand-off, a change in leadership at the top. When it's messy the whole company can suffer. It can die or be taken over. When it's done right the chief operating officer...

Tags: Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Corp., IPO, Web Browsers, Financial Planning, Blogging, Investment, Financial Services, Internet, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-08

Mozilla names Lilly CEO; A look at his early priorities

Mozilla Corp., the for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, has named chief operating officer John Lilly as CEO. Former CEO Mitchell Baker will remain chairman. The duo outlined the move in separate blogs. For her part, Baker said on her blog that she will focus on issues...

Tags: Blogging, Internet, Larry Dignan, Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers

Blog posts 2008-01-07

Will Mozilla set Thunderbird free?

It appears that Mozilla may be setting the Thunderbird project free so it can develop more rapidly on its own. Mozilla has been supporting Thunderbird since its inception. That effort has delivered some promising results, but Mozilla is mostly focused on Firefox.In a blog post, Mozilla chairman Mitchell Baker said:The...

Tags: Web Technology, Open Source, Office 2.0, General

Blog posts 2007-07-26

PC Forum: Is open source a movement or a working model?

Mitchell Baker and Kim Polese joined Esther for a panel on trends in open source. Baker said that the call for a smaller set of licenses is gaining some traction, especially in developing interoperability among the licenses, although the GPL is problematic on that front. Questioning whether the right entity...

Tags: Kim Polese, open source

Blog posts 2005-03-22

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Should Mozilla stay out of the whole IE/EU antitrust mess?

Mozilla Foundation chairperson Mitchell Baker believes that because Internet Explorer is integrated into the OS this give Microsoft an unfair advantage in the browser war. As a result of this Baker is in favor of EU involvement to try to level the playing field. Is this a bad move for...

Tags: Antitrust, Microsoft Corp., Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Leadership, Strategy, Open Source, Internet, Management, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Mozilla chief backs Opera's browser-bundling complaint against Microsoft

Allowing Microsoft to make IE the default browser in Windows the courts has put a damper on Microsoft's competitors. I agree with Mozilla Foundation Chief Executive Mitchell Baker on that. But the real question now is what could and should be done -- at this late date -- to fix...

Tags: EC, Internet, Mary Jo Foley, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Mozilla Corp., Opera Software ASA, Operating Systems, Software, Web Browser, Web Browsers

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Mozilla's financials: 2007 strong; Portfolio takes 2008 lumps

Mozilla's 2007 annual report reveals a foundation that's well funded--primarily by a Google search deal--and can weather a downturn. Nevertheless, 2008 is going to be a different story as Mozilla's portfolio has taken some big hits. In 2007, Mozilla had revenue of $75 million, up 12 percent...

Tags: Mozilla Corp., Taxes, Financial Management, Mutual Funds, Investment, Free Trade, Retirement Plans, Operational Accounting, Financial Planning, Finance, Human Resources, Benefits, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Mozilla Project ready for rough economic times

The Mozilla Foundation has posted its 2007 financial statements and tax forms, and Mitchell Baker points out that Mozilla's revenue is up over 2006, and things look good for the future as well, even in a lousy financial market. But Mozilla's finances aren't the only part of Mozilla's picture that's...

Tags: Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Operational Accounting, Taxes, Financial Accounting, Internet, Finance, Financial Planning, Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Mozilla: We goofed on the EULA, let's talk

The Mozilla Foundation is making changes to its EULA display for Linux distros. After a bunch of complaints on Monday, Mozilla Foundation chairperson Mitchell Baker has indicated that the project will be making some changes both in the license and reconsidering the way the EULA is displayed. ...

Tags: EULA, Mozilla Corp., Joe Brockmeier

Blog posts 2008-09-16

Could Google's Chrome be death blow to Firefox?

No doubt, Google's forthcoming open source browser -- known as Chrome -- is going to challenge other open source browsers, most notably Firefox. It could be a devastating blow to Firefox, which has amassed and taken roughly 18 percent of browser market share away from Internet Explorer in a short...

Tags: Google Inc., Mozilla Firefox, Web Application, Web Browser, Mozilla Corp., Chrome, V8 Javascript Virtual Machine, Web Browsers, Cloud Computing, Open Source, Internet, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-09-02

Google, Mozilla extend search box deal

That little Google search box in the upper right part of your Firefox browser will be sticking around through 2011, according to Mozilla. Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation or Chief Lizard Wrangler depending on what you prefer, said in a blog post that Google has...

Tags: Google Inc., Financial, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Financial Accounting, Operational Accounting, Internet, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Mobile Firefox "Fennec" critical to maintaining Mozilla's momentum

Now that Firefox 3 has launched, the Mozilla team is hopefully after a vacation at work on the next updates, including a major mobile version. Mozilla’s mobile web browser, which is under development as part of Firefox 4 platform and code named Fennec, won’t launch until 2009. Still,...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox 3.0, Mozilla Firefox, Mobile, Mozilla Corp., Fennec, Web Browsers, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Marketing, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-06-19

Mozilla goes mobile

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Mozilla Foundation Chairman Mitchell Baker talks about the company's plans to enter the smartphone market with Fennec, a mobile version of its Firefox browser. She also discusses how the new, open platform will encourage Web 2.0 application development.

Tags: Mozilla

Videos 2008-04-25

Mozilla wishes itself a happy 10th birthday

Mozilla turned 10 yesterday. (Illustration from Dave Titus' t-shirt collection.) The open source successor to the Netscape browser is now the world's largest open source project. Foundation chair Mitchell Baker threw herself a little blog party to celebrate, offering a state of Mozilla post...

Tags: Mozilla Corp., Internet, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-01

Mozilla moves closer to the desktop with 'Prism'

Mozilla has a blog post today indicating that WebRunner, the XUL-based application which just released version 0.7 and was meant as a way to give web applications their own window/desktop presence, has become Prism. Prism looks like it will enable greater desktop functionality much like Adobe AIR. The Mozilla labs...

Tags: Desktop, Web Application, Blog, Mozilla Corp., Prism, Desktops, Hardware, Ryan Stewart

Blog posts 2007-10-25

Mozilla banks Google bucks; Builds a portfolio

Mozilla has released its 2006 audited financials and that little Google search box in the top right of Firefox is the gift that keeps giving. Mozilla's revenue, which includes Mozilla's foundation and corporation, came in at $66.8 million in 2006. That's up from $52.9 million in 2005. Mitchell...

Tags: Mozilla Firefox, Mozilla Corp., Web Browsers, Internet, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2007-10-23

Will Mozilla fill Open Office product holes?

Yesterday, Paula laid the smackdown on IBM for not going after Microsoft Outlook with its Symphony announcements. Before Big Blue could even rise from the mat, however, the Mozilla Foundation tagged me with news it was expanding its Thunderbird initiative with $3 million seed funding and David...

Tags: Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Corp., OpenOffice, E-mail Clients, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-09-19

Mozilla pumps $3M into Thunderbird spin-off

The open-source Mozilla Foundation is putting up $3 million to fund a new subsidiary to manage the Thunderbird e-mail initiative. The new company will be led by David Ascher, who joins Mozilla from ActiveState where he last worked as CTO and vice president of engineering. ...

Tags: Mozilla Thunderbird, Mozilla Corp., E-mail, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2007-09-18

Mozilla executive director search to loop in community

The Mozilla Foundation is being pretty open about its search for an executive director and plans to loop in community members to help select candidates. On Mozilla's Usenet group last night, Mitchell Baker, known as Mozilla's Chief Lizard Wrangler, said she is part of the team defining the search process...

Tags: General, Open Source, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-05-25