Mitchell Baker: Mozilla, Firefox and Google Chrome

Mozilla exists to build portions of the Internet where individual human benefit, social benefit, and civic benefit are the most important things. We build Firefox explicitly to advance this goal. Mozilla is uniquely suited to doing this. As a non-profit organization we are organized ? legally and logistically ? to do this, and only this. We build Firefox as a first, critical step in this goal. But Firefox isn?t the end goal. The end goal is to create an Internet where all of us can participate, where all of us have the ability to build, where all of us can earn authority, responsibility and decision-making ability. Each one of us will live in a world where our online identity and experience is massive and growing. Each one of us should be able to participate in creating and defining that experience. And to participate in the ways we think are important, not just in the ways someone else offers us. Mozilla recognized long ago that an independent browser dedicated only to the public good is a necessary piece for building a healthy Internet. Many people thought this was silly ? the browser was generally treated as simply a part of the Windows desktop and not important in its own right. view original article
Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:04:20 +0200

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