Firefox's Mitchell Baker -- the anniversary interview in full

Earlier this year, I interviewed Mitchell Baker in London for an article in the Technology section of the Guardian. We chatted on too long, and because she was so interesting, I thought I'd put a rough transcript of the rest online for Mozilla's 10th anniversary on March 31. Ahem. But Mitchell said the idea was to celebrate the anniversary all year, so it's still timely....There's around 3,000 words on why Mozilla doesn't want to get into a death-spiral with Microsoft, and has more important things to do than chase market share, such as moving the whole web forward. Also, why Mozilla isn't using Firefox to plug Thunderbird more heavily, and why Firefox is finally taking a serious look at the mobile business.A bit of background: Mitchell Baker joined Netscape's legal department in 1994, and has been involved with the browser ever since: at Netscape, at AOL, and at Mozilla, which she helped set up. She became chief executive of Mozilla Corporation in 2005 -- a job she's just passed to her chief operating officer John Lilly -- and she's now chairman of both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation. Earlier this year, I interviewed Mitchell Baker in London for an article in the Technology section of the Guardian. We chatted on too long, and because she was so interesting, I thought I'd put a rough transcript of the rest online for Mozilla's 10th anniversary on March 31. Ahem. But Mitchell said the idea was to celebrate the anniversary all year, so it's still timely....There's around 3,000 words on why Mozilla doesn't want to get into a death-spiral with Microsoft, and has more important things to do than chase market share, such as moving the whole web forward. Also, why Mozilla isn't using Firefox to plug Thunderbird more heavily, and why Firefox is finally taking a serious look at the mobile business.A bit of background: Mitchell Baker joined Netscape's legal department in 1994, and has been involved with the browser ever since: at Netscape, at AOL, and at Mozilla, which she helped set up. She became chief executive of Mozilla Corporation in 2005 -- a job she's just passed to her chief operating officer John Lilly -- and she's now chairman of both Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla..... More Details>>