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Mozilla is a non profit company, which means it is mission oriented.

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Mozilla exists to make the Internet better, and not to maximize profits.

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To Mozilla a better Internet includes, for one keeping it open, and not owned by a single company.

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We don't want any one vendor, including us, to have control over the Internet.

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So how can we make sure that no one will have control over the Internet?

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Well there's actually concrete ways that we do that.

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We make sure that there's a good specification, so other people can come along and implement them.

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We do that through standardization.

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We make sure that technology is not incumbered by patents.

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We make sure that we ourselves are open by default, most mailing lists, meetings, notes, bugs, and source code are all open by default at Mozilla.

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A better Internet also includes the ability to innovate on the Internet.

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Some of that innovation will come from us, some of it will come from competitors in the browser market.

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In any case, Mozilla considers innovation on the Internet a WIN.

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A better Internet also includes creating opportunities on the Internet.

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And this does include commercial involvement as well.

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Mozilla is itself a non profit company, but it fully understands that for profit companies benefit the Internet.

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A better Internet also includes respecting your privacy, and keeping the Internet itself teachable and hackable.

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So the page that I have loaded up right here is the Mozilla Manifesto, and it goes over some of what I talked about, and a lot more, in probably better detail.

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So that's most of what I wanted to cover in this video.

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But I also wanted to touch on, why is Mozilla a good place to contribute to.

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And probably the number one reason, is that at Mozilla's core, is the community.

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Whether you're an employee or a contributor, you're treated the exact same at Mozilla.

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You have the same access to information, you have the same decision making power, and you have the same respect.

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Mozilla attracts great people, both employees and contributors.

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Because they believe that the best thing that they can do with their time, and the best impact that they can have in life, is to help fulfill Mozilla's mission.

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We don't gain a competitive edge by doing a lot of things in our mission, it sometimes takes longer for example to standardize things.

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But it's the right thing to do.

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Mozilla exists to make the Internet better.

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And this site, Code Firefox, exists to help you contribute to that mission.