Mitchell Baker

Chairwoman; former CEO · United States · On the map · Executives · Born 1957 · age 69

Winifred Mitchell Baker is the former chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and CEO of the Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, including the Mozilla Firefox web browser.

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2022Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and SciencesAward2018Honorary doctor of the Catholic University of LouvainAward2014“Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech, and you need free speech to fight for equality.”In their words3 April 2014cnet.com: "Mozilla CEO Eich resigns after gay-marriage controversy" 3 Apr 2014; on the resignation of Brendan Eich, 3 April 2014:Read the whole statement

2012“The MPL 1.1 versions had one expert who had been involved in every word and every decision.”In their words3 January 2012"Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 Released" (2012-01-03), Mitchell Baker's BlogRead the whole statement

Internet Hall of FameAward2010“When I wrote the MPL we drew upon the GPL v2 for many ideas, and on the MIT and BSD and early Apache license.”In their words10 March 2010"Updating the Mozilla Public License" (2010-03-10), Mitchell Baker's BlogRead the whole statement

2009“The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.”In their words4 March 2009Questions For: Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Chairman (Andrew LaVallee, Digits, Wall Street JournalRead the whole statement