Ars: What's your opinion on where the Mozilla community is today? Where do you guys go from here?
I love it. I've never been good at predicting the future, I'm happy to be where we are now, but I think we have a long way to go and I have hope that we'll get there. I have hope that we will be a mainstream browser and that people will use Mozilla. Every place you walk today, you look at a sign, you look at the back of a truck you see URLs. Tim Berners-Lee did an amazing thing. But do you know why there's URLs on the back of trucks? It's because of the Netscape browser.
It took a lot of things all happening together to make the web work and one key piece of that was the Netscape browser, and that became part of the consciousness of the world. That's the thing I learned to lust after as a programmer. It's not my ability to solve one problem, to plow this field, but the ability to build a plow that every farmer uses. The ability to make something that touches not ten people, not a hundred people, not a thousand people but a hundred million people. I want Mozilla to be there again. IE is a browser with no soul. I want it to be Mozilla because I think that people who care deserve a browser with a soul.
