In this interview with Wired, Mitchell Baker looks back on
Firefox’s success and what it meant — and explains why she
thinks Mozilla’s new push to create a mobile operating system to
rival Apple’s and Google’s matters just as much …  Mozilla’s
Mitchell Baker on Being the Alternative to Microsoft, Google and
Apple  Mitchell Baker. Photo: Joi/Flickr  Fourteen years ago, as
a lawyer for Netscape, Mitchell Baker created the open source
license that made Netscape’s code free. It was a fateful event
for both Baker and the web: Baker ended up leading a small
skunkworks project called Mozilla that was eventually spun out
into a standalone foundation devoted to making the web better
generally, and to offering an alternative to Microsoft’s
Internet Explorer specifically. With its Firefox browser,
Mozilla is now bigger and more influential than ever, and Baker
still serves as its chair.  Meanwhile, the open source, open-web
spirit of Mozilla lives on in thousands of projects: GitHub,
Android development, HTML5 apps and