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What is Mozilla?

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Let me try to answer this

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Mozilla is a collection of people

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Mozilla is a global project,

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it's a non-profit organization

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it is this incredible movement of

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really, really passionate people

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I think it attracts people who are interested in helping others

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

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(laughs) crazy people

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Mozilla is of course best known for our product Firefox

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The Firefox project was born in a time

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when the Web became stagnant

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and the only browser out there

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was Internet Explorer

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It's one thing to talk about competition

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as sort of an idealized economic good

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it's another thing to say

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"your browser made my life so much better

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my computer was so slow and I was getting pop ups and couldn't use it"

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I thought the Internet was terrible

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and now its all better

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and this is what happened in 2004

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when we launched Firefox

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There is a lot of innovation

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we drove in the browser

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which you found today across all browsers

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A lot of the good things that we built

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have come from people who

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don't happen to work on the project full time

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and that's a really important thing

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Innovation doesn't happen unless people are tinkering

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and tinkering doesn't happen

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unless they have access to the code

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You end up with a much richer ecosystem

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when you have more people

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trying out their ideas

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and seeing what works

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and sometimes that translates back into us

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and we say "that's a good idea

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we would like to use it

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and we're going to ship it to everybody"

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Mozilla is a very important experiment

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because we operate like

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a for profit company

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we have a high quality product

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we have customers

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and instead of shareholders

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who want profit

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we have a mission

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to keep the web open

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to provide choice

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that's why we're a non-profit

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is so we can make our product decisions

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based on user experience

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and empowering people

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and building a product that cares

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that you're a citizen and a human being

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and not based on

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that you own a wallet

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we are for

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an independent

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and open Internet

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If Mozilla or other organizations weren't fighting

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for these things

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The web would become like other mass media

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That is, dominated by a few

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The definition of open source implies

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working together without discrimination

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The web isn't just something that you consume

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it's something you can actually affect yourself

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We have these ideas about how the world should work

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and we tend to embody that in

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something that individual people can touch

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and be part of

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and that's different