When Mozilla entered the market, Open Source was synonymous with “server software” and “command-line interface.” Mozilla showed that vibrant clients could come from the Open Source community, which opened the door to other clients for email and multimedia.
The ever-growing usage of Firefox ‒ the free and open web browser created and managed byMozilla ‒ proved that the web should not belong to one company and one operating system. Baker has been involved with Mozilla ever since Netscape Communications Corporation launched it as a project in 1998. Within one year, she became Chief Lizard Wrangler (general manager) of mozilla.org, Netscape’s division that coordinated the Open Source project.
