John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, shares some insights and thoughts on Mozilla, and its a most interesting presentation to go through. The insights are (drizzled with some of my comments):
- Superior Products Matter - Without excellent experience and utility, the rest is meaningless. This is true, even with MySQL - our aims and values have always been performance, reliability and ease of use.
- Push (most) decision-making to the edges - I understand that as make sure your community has a significant voice (kind of like Wikipedia’s anyone edits policy, but there’s patrolling). He also suggests that on a regular basis, you need to have surprising innovation - things that blow people’s minds. In Mozilla’s case, there are a set of core values that everyone agrees too; …