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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
