Other signatories include Mitchell Baker, executive chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation; Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman, pioneers of public-key cryptography; Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive; and Jennifer Rexford, chair of computer science at Princeton University.
Date: Dec 11, 2017
Category: Business
Source: Google
Leading internet figures call on Congress to stop net neutrality repeal
The letter, which was sent on Monday, was signed by Tim Berners-Lee and Vinton Cerf, both considered the founding fathers of the internet; Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak; and Mitchell Baker, the head of the Mozilla Foundation.
Date: Dec 11, 2017
Category: Business
Source: Google
Brave is the name, ad-blocking the game of new browser
Ironically, considering Eich's background -- along with Mitchell Baker, he co-founded Mozilla, maker of Firefox, in 1998 -- Brave on the desktop is based on Chromium, the open-source project Google runs to feed code into its Chrome browser. Brave on iOS, however, is a fork of Firefox on Apple's mobi
Date: Jan 21, 2016
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Mozilla To Shut Down Persona Login System On Nov. 30
Persona is not the first project that Mozilla has ditched. In early December 2015, Mitchell Baker, the executive chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation, announced that they are planning to spin off email client Thunderbird and are looking for a new maintainer. Baker said that t
Date: Jan 13, 2016
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Mozilla is thinking about ditching Thunderbird email client
Many inside of Mozilla, including an overwhelming majority of our leadership, feel the need to be laser-focused on activities like Firefox that can have an industry-wide impact, said Mozillas chairperson, Mitchell Baker (via Ars).With all due respect to Thunderbird and the Thunderbird community,
Date: Dec 01, 2015
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Mozilla will automatically switch Firefox search to Yahoo for most US users
oogle in the last three years, $275 million in 2013 alone, it has roundly criticized both Google and Apple for controlling users' access to content and how they are allowed to manage their personal data. "This direction for the Internet sucks," said Mozilla Foundation chairwoman Mitchell Baker in a Nov.
Date: Dec 01, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
Source: Google
Mozilla tells Google, it's not you (anymore), it's Yahoo
The move away from Google wasn't surprising given the hints Mozilla has dropped recently, including thinly-veiled criticism of both Google and Apple from Mozilla's chairwoman, Mitchell Baker, last week.
In a statement released Monday, Mozilla executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker said Chris Beard will become CEO, adding "no one we met was a better fit" after a review of several internal and external candidates for Mozilla's top spot.