MITCHELL BAKER

You can get anything from Mozilla Firefox-based themes to nature themes to your own photographs.

People are more naturally protective of what they create than of what they consume.

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.

We worked very hard to make extensions very simple.

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.

I like to see photographs: I like to see my family. To me, when I open a basic browser, and it's that very elegant silver simple user interface, I am unhappy. I don't need elegant and silver and simple!

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

Especially if you don't have a job that's providing fulfillment in your technical expertise, there is a lot of reward to working on a very smart and demanding community that will respect you and will give you leadership and authority based on what you do.

Mobile devices are kind of at the opposite end of PCs, in that PCs are pretty open and you can do a fair amount with them, but many mobile devices aren't.

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

The Internet offers untold potential for humanity. To make the most of it, we need to think of the Internet as 'ours.'

Mozilla has one foot in the Valley, Silicon Valley product technology, and partly one foot in the social enterprise space.

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

We have a version of Firefox for mobile devices, codenamed Fennec. That's a type of fox - South American, I think, with giant ears.

I think HTML5 is one area where Mozilla has done very poorly at actually communicating what we have done.

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.

I grew up as an only child.

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.

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.

The name Firefox is not part of the open source licence, and that's why it's important to us.

We invest heavily on Firefox on the desktop. We have a user base we want to keep happy.

When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that.

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.

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