Q & A with John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla Corp.
John Lilly became chief executive of Mozilla Corp. in January, moving up from his role as chief operating officer. He's been with the company that created the open-source Firefox browser since 2005, the year Firefox 1.5 was released.
Before Firefox, Microsoft's Internet Explorer dominated the Web. Now Microsoft's share is down and Mozilla's share is 20 percent.
The size of the organization makes Mozilla's tremendous success that much more remarkable. Headquartered in Mountain View, it has fewer than 200 employees.
Using an open-source model, its code is published, and users everywhere are encouraged to improve it. Mozilla Corp., which Lilly directs, is a subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
Mercury News reporter Pete Carey asked Lilly how an open-source company such as Mozilla works, and threw in a few questions about Chrome, Google's new open source-browser that was introduced earlier this month.
Q. In January you become the chief executive of a spread-out, thinly staffed, undercapitalized organization that has 200 million customers. You've been with Mozilla since 2005. How do you make it work?
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