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by vondur 2354 days ago
What I don't understand is why they chose a lawyer to run a software development company.
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An open-source software development company, which is influential on web standards.
From what I read in this thread, it sounds more like she's a political activist.
Mitchell has been influential in Netscape and Mozilla since the beginning. Also, Mozilla isn’t just a software company. It’s also an technology and public policy advocacy organization.