Australian IT has an interesting interview with Mozilla Corporation CEO, Mitchell Baker. It touches a variety of topics regarding the Mozilla project: Mozilla as an organizational model, the role of Mozilla in the IT industry, Mozilla taking over the browser market scenario, its relationship with other open source projects and corporations, revenue, spending and growth plans.

Some quotes:

If you just think of what the internet could be, it had to be done. We are not exactly a last bastion, but it is hard to imagine any other business entity taking on the tasks we have.

If we got to a point, say 50 per cent or more, we would do a lot of soul-searching and we would probably think long and hard about what kinds of checks and balances we needed so we didn't become just like the problem we set out to solve.

We might only have got five or six hours of someone's time a week as a volunteer but it was expertise in an area that we may not have found anywhere else.

We came to a big holiday, Xmas or Thanksgiving, soon after I started and I asked about it and I was told that the Sheriff was not a person but actually a big instant messaging channel.

I asked what that meant, and I was told there were plenty of people around the world who were not on vacation and if something went wrong they'd go to this chat room and someone would step up and fix it. I was a little nervous about it, but that's how it works.

You can read the full interview at Australian IT.