What is mozilla?

let me try to answer this

Mozilla is... a question of people?

Mozilla is a global project

and it's a non-profit organization

It is just an incredible movement of

really really passionate people

I think it attracts people who are interested in helping others

and who want to work with a group and do something important

ehehe crazy people!

Mozilla is of course best known for

our product Firefox

The Firefox project was born in a time when

the web became stagnant and

the only browser out there was Internet Explorer

It's one thing to talk about competition sort of like an idealized economic good

it's another thing to say, you know, your browser made my life so much better,

my computer was so slow, I was getting popups and I couldn't use it,

I thought the internet was terrible and now it's all better,

this is what happened back in 2004 when we launched Firefox.

There's a lot of innovation we drove in the browser, which you find today across all browsers.

a lot of the good things we've built have come from people who don't happen to work on the project full time

And that's a really important thing.

Innovation doesn't happen unless people are tinkering

and tinkering does not happen unless they have access to the code.

You end up with a much richer ecosystem, when you have more people trying out their ideas

and seeing what works

sometimes that translates back at us and we say:

well that's a good idea

we would like to use it

we're gonna ship it to everybody

Mozilla is a very important experiment

because we operate like a for-profit company

we have a high quality product, we have customers and, instead of shareholders, who want

profits we have a mission to keep the web open, to provide choice.

That's why we are non-profit. It's so, we can make our product decisions based on user experience and

empowering people and building a product that cares that you're a citizen and a human being,

and not based on that you own a wallet.

Mozilla is a global project

There are many ways you can get involved

You can contribute code

You can translate and localize content

You can innovate in the browser and beyond

You can donate and support our cause

We are for an independent and open Internet.

If Mozilla or other organizations where not fighting for this

the Web would become the same as the other large mechanisms of mass communication

That is, dominated by a few

The definition of open source implies

working together without discrimination

The Web isn't just something that you consume,

it's something that you can actually affect yourself.

you know we had this idea about how the world should work and

we tend to embody that into something individual people can touch and be part of

And that's different.

We're not just a different kind of browser.

We're building a better web

Anyone can help

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