interview: Mitchell Baker, chairperson, Mozilla
Mitchell Baker is a Silicon Valley survivor. And a believer.
In the days after Microsoft's Internet Explorer had ground its browser rival Netscape into the digital dust, Baker, who had been working on the open-source Mozilla project within Netscape, was laid off in 2001. She stayed on at the nonprofit Mozilla organization as an unpaid volunteer, because she believed its mission was crucial to the Internet's future.
Nearly a decade later, Mozilla's Firefox browser is the window to the Internet for nearly a third of the planet's Internet users. Firefox is even more popular in most of the rest of the world than in the U.S., and in some countries, including Germany, has become the most popular browser. Microsoft Internet Explorer, meanwhile, has slid from a dominating 95 percent of the market, to a bare majority of users.
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