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US News & World Report: Firefox: On the Front Lines of the Internet Wars

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“Mitchell Baker has long been on the front lines of the Internet
wars. As a lawyer at Netscape, she watched Microsoft steal market
share (illegally, a federal court ruled) from the first software
program that gave people easy access to the Internet. Since 1998,
she’s been at the forefront of the Mozilla project, which started
out as a volunteer effort to build a better browser. (Mozilla was a
nickname for the Mosaic Killer project started by Netscape founder
Marc Andreessen to replace his first browser program.)

“Since its formal launch in 2004, Mozilla’s free Firefox browser
has won plaudits from industry and academic experts, who say it is
safer and more user friendly than Microsoft’s Internet
Explorer…”


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