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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