Joining Mozilla

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 19, 2007

“So, what exactly is the job? It’s simply this: Mozilla has
decided that the best way to make email and internet communications
better is to create a new organization with that (admittedly broad)
space as its focus, starting with Thunderbird as the starting
product and some seed funding. And they’ve asked me to lead that
organization. As our son said when he heard the news ‘Isn’t it an
honor to be asked by Mozilla to do this?’ Indeed it is. I’m
exceedingly flattered.

“This new organization (unnamed as of yet, code-named MailCo)
will be a sister company to Mozilla Corporation, and a subsidiary
of the Mozilla Foundation as well…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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