Mitchell Baker

Winifred Mitchell Baker (born 1959), better known simply as Mitchell Baker, is the Chairperson of the Mozilla Foundation and Chairperson and former Chief Executive Officer of the Mozilla Corporation. Baker wrote the Netscape Public License and the first version of the Mozilla Public License.

• The average consumer does not know the difference between browser, Internet and search box.
  • Questions For: Mitchell Baker, Mozilla Chairman (Andrew LaVallee, Digits, Wall Street Journal, 04 March 2009)

• When I wrote the MPL we drew upon the GPL v2 for many ideas, and on the MIT and BSD and early Apache license.
  • "Updating the Mozilla Public License" (2010-03-10), Mitchell Baker's Blog

• The MPL 1.1 versions had one expert who had been involved in every word and every decision. Even today, more than a decade later, I can still bring to mind particular phrases or section references along with the rationale behind them.
  • "Mozilla Public License Version 2.0 Released" (2012-01-03), Mitchell Baker's Blog

• Mozilla believes both in equality and freedom of speech. Equality is necessary for meaningful speech, and you need free speech to fight for equality. Figuring out how to stand for both at the same time can be hard.
  • cnet.com: "Mozilla CEO Eich resigns after gay-marriage controversy" 3 Apr 2014; on the resignation of Brendan Eich, 3 April 2014: