"...At the end of July, Mitchell Baker presented on “The Internet, Mozilla, and the Public Benefit” at The Internet as a Public Good Symposium at Harvard. The list of sessions is available and slides or documents from the presentations there are available as well..."
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Mozilla Aims At Cross-Site Scripting With FF3
Web 2.0 has enabled a broad array of Websites to be more engaging for users. It has also enabled a new and now very common attack, namely cross site scripting, commonly referred to as XSS attacks
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Mozilla's Lawyer Isn't a GPLv3 Fan
The GPL version 3 has been out for six weeks, and the debate about whether to adopt it remains heated.
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Why capitalist pigs would be good for Mozilla
I won't go into the economics, but suffice it to say that I think there's little hope of Mozilla making Firefox (or any of its other software) into true public goods of any note.
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Mozilla: 10 day patch guarantee 'not our policy'
Mozilla does not set security policy at late-night pyjama parties.
The open source browser maker was forced to issue a statement Monday retracting a pledge attributed to the company's director of ecosystem development, Mike Schaver, to fix any critical security bugs in the browser within "Ten ****ing Days."
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All the questions you may have about Thunderbird, answered by Mitchell Baker - Standblog
"...Mitchell has put together several posts on her blog to answer questions that the community may have. I've digested them below. Enjoy....
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Mozilla Updates Firefox Ahead Of Black Hat
Mozilla has patched a pair of security vulnerabilities in its Firefox Web browser just in time for its release of security tools at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this week.
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Mozilla CEO denies Google decided Thunderbird's fate
Mozilla's CEO Thursday evening answered charges that the company is dropping development of the Thunderbird e-mail client because of its partnership with Google. Several comments posted to Mitchell Baker's blog put forward conspiracy theories of a link between Mozilla's decision on Thunderbird and Google's push into e-mail with its Gmail Web-based service.
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Mozilla rushes out second Firefox patch this month
Mozilla has patched a pair of nasty flaws in its Firefox browser, two weeks after security researchers first started posting code that showed how the flaws could be exploited in attacks.
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Thunderbird -- Why Change Things?
One large them of responses to the Thunderbird post is the question: Why can't Thunderbird and Firefox both prosper in the same development organization? Since there is money, what's the problem?
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Thunderbird must go says Mozilla CEO
Mozilla CEO Mitchell Baker has admitted that Thunderbird is to be booted out of the Mozilla camp in order to allow “the Thunderbird community to determine its own destiny” apparently.
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Thunderbird and the Mozilla Mission
There has been some interpretation of my Thunderbird /mail post as saying that Thunderbird doesn't fit into the mission of the Mozilla Foundation. This is not my view at all.
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Mozilla ponders separate organization for Thunderbird
The Mozilla Foundation is thinking about creating a separate organization to take control of its Thunderbird e-mail application, allowing it to concentrate on development of the Firefox Web browser.
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Researcher publishes attack code for Mozilla flaw
Mozilla is working on patching its Firefox browser after a hacker posted details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorized software on a victim's machine.
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Mozilla Firefox Still At Risk
Sometimes you get the flaw fixed right the first time and sometimes you don't. For Mozilla, apparently they have not properly fixed at least two types of flaws which they previously claimed to have fixed.
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