Comments on: Mozilla Corporation CEO and Chairman

By: Shelon Padmore

Shelon Padmore — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 11:08:05 +0000

What about new pc bundling. If linux can come oem with dells, why can’t mozilla.
This could work wonders for mind and market share.

- Shelon Padmore

By: golden tree

golden tree — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:45:05 +0000

Great news! This shows you care about mucus!
In case you didn’t understand the sentence above, “moco” in spanish means “mucus”, not a pleasant nick for a company.

It wouldn’t hurt and wouldn’t take much effort to check at least in a couple of the most relevant languages besides english.

Of course you can tell me don’t be such a child and so on, but imagine a relatively known non usa company decided to nick itself “piss” or “pus”. Not a big deal, but not nice either.

Well, after that intermezzo, I repeat that this is great news and keep it up.

By: M.S. Babaei

M.S. Babaei — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:07:00 +0000

Congratulations!!!!!!!!!

Now go ahead an stay against IE with fresh power.

By: Peter Saint-Andre

Peter Saint-Andre — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:03:18 +0000

I look forward to seeing more involvement from the Mozilla community in standards efforts. Yes, many of the standards development organizations are broken to some extent, but greater participation from outside developers may lead to improvements (if we all go in with eyes open and, as iang says, understand how these organizations work). For example, it was good to see a few Mozilla folks at the recent IETF meeting in Vancouver, helping to provide some real-world input into the next-generation HTTP efforts. Keep it up!

By: Ken Saunders

Ken Saunders — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:19:18 +0000

Congratulations and good luck!
Although it doesn’t sound like you’ll gain a whole lot of spare time, at least that time will continue to go to a good cause.

As a Mozilla products user, supporter, and fan, I sincerely thank you for all that you have done for me and for the general welfare of the Internet.

By: Karsten

Karsten — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:00:46 +0000

“So I’ve asked myself repeatedly: what is the best use of my talents?”

Get another job where you cannot do harm.

“But at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is actual code and the technology itself and the people who are not willing to step up and write that code, they can comment on it and they can say it should be done this way or that way or they won’t, but in the end their voice doesn’t matter. The only thing that matters is code.” - Linus

http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20080108055647987

By: Iang

Iang — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:33:50 +0000

On standards, my view was fundamentally rewired by Gary Hamel. He and C.K.Prahalad researched how actors behave in such circumstances and (I believe) nailed down the mechanics. It’s IMHO well worth being familiar with their models before investing too much time in standards participation.

I wish you much success in the other 4 bullet points!

By: Mac Brown

Mac Brown — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:55:03 +0000

Many congratulations to both of you. I look forward to seeing the outcome of the many fascinating changes that are afoot at Mozilla and “MailCo”.

By: anne meyer

anne meyer — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:40:50 +0000

I’ve never posted a blog response–have simply been a leech, or more delicately, an observer. Your post on your past, present and future relationship with MoCo is frankly brilliant. I knew I made a good choice to give up aol and ie six or seven years ago, and to tell you the truth, I feel completely validated today. But, what’s important–for me, for other mozilla fans, for future mozilla fans, and for the future of (what until now has been an amazingly hard-to-describe, hard to translate, and mind-bogglingly impossible to communicate) what CAN BE, I applaud you, your company, your goals, your standards, and your obvious focus on the goal of rendering unto the public their ownership of this fantastic, connected universe that is the internet. I don’t understand it but it seems that the majority of your current and yet-to-be users do not understand the importance of exactly what it is you’re offering them–the opportunity, the method and the right to make one’s own way along this exciting “route 66″ , the ‘net. heck, I don’t really get it, but do appreciate the concept of open source, hate the concept of buying mainstream hardware loaded with restrictions, forced applications, paid-for clutter (by third parties), and insidious, banking-on-the-user’s-ignorance settings and programming. I found hope and a calming sense of “someone’s on the case” after reading about your transition on my home page today and, most importantly after reading your blog. Now I’ll NEED to read more, and before you know it, I’ll have yet another reason to postpone, ignore, deny my everyday obligations….laundry, paperwork, etc. And I’d like to thank you for giving me such a gift.

I’ll be enjoying keeping up with your future and watching how your goals become more defined and yet fluid, (the benchmark, in my view, of good goals), and wish you all the best.

thank you for handing me, for free, the power I never knew I had, to direct my internet, computing and life-embedded future. cheers!

By: JT

JT — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:24:25 +0000

Congrats Mitchell and John!