Mozilla is a global community of technologists, thinkers, and builders, who work together to build a more open internet for all.
Created in 1998 as the open source branch of Netscape it was intended to empower a community of hackers and help restart a stagnating browser market. In 2003 the Mozilla Foundation was formed as an independent non- profit, to support the global community that had formed around the project, and to officially take on the role of “promoting openness, innovation and opportunity” (Mozilla 2014).
In November 2005 Mozilla released Mozilla Firefox 1.5. It was that November that I became involved with Mozilla for the first time. Since then I’ve travelled the world attending conferences, working on global strategy, and helping build the Internet the world needs. Trying to make the Internet knowable, interoperable, and ours.
Fast forward almost nine years to the present day and Mozilla is one of the largest open source projects in the world. With a global community of contributors estimated to number over 45,000, with only about 1,100 paid staff. " Mozilla has also expanded is focus from just the browser to the mobile market (through FirefoxOS) and Web literacy (through Webmaker).
The twins of Mammon quarrelled. Their warring plunged the world into a new darkness, and the beast abhorred the darkness. So it began to move swiftly, and grew more powerful, and went forth and multiplied. And the beasts brought fire and light to the darkness.
– from The Book of Mozilla, 15:1