Mitchell Baker and the Firefox Paradox
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| Its products are free. Its work force is largely volunteer. Its meetings
| are open to anyone. It's a nonprofit. It may be the hottest tech company in
| America.
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| Open-source software organizations such as those that developed the
| Linux PC operating system and the Apache Web server program have
| long wrestled with ways to keep lines of communication open and
| to distribute decision making among vast communities of mostly
| software-developer volunteers. But Mozilla can't fall back on
| these precedents, either. Unlike other open-source ventures,
| which tend to be niche products embraced by techies who become
| fiercely loyal to and dependent on the software, Firefox is a
| mass-market, consumer-oriented product that can easily be
| replaced should it fail to offer distinct advantages over
| the competition. That means Mozilla has to move faster and be
| more innovative and marketing-oriented than its open-source
| cousins.
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http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070201/features-firefox.html
Related:
Firefox: 300 million+ downloads
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| Firefox has reached a new milestone: 300,000,000 downloads since its
| initial release back in November 9, 2004. That's 825 days ago, which
| makes a cute rate of : 363,636.3636..downloads/day.
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2007/02/firefox-300-million-downloads/
Firefox crosses the 23% frontier in Europe
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| Shifting from 19.4% for the week of the 8th to the 14th of April
| 2006, Firefox user share rose to 23.2% in the week from November 20th to
| November 26th 2006...
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http://www.xitimonitor.com/en-US/Technicals/index-1-2-3-68.html
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