For the last several weeks I've been participating in a series of Advisory Committee meetings to help the Mozilla.org Foundation start a wholly-owned subsidiary called The Mozilla Corporation, or Mozilla.Corp. Today there is a press release about the change and a FAQ on the new website.
This work is a great example of how effective the Mozilla Community (both .org and .corp) are at building consensus and making everyone feel included and useful. I'm not sure how useful my participation was, but I tried to add value to the conversation. When the time came I also briefed some of my blogging friends.
Interesting how hard it is to get "Big Media" to understand the subtle FOSS message on something like launch of a new Mozilla Corporation. They assume the story can be boiled down to formulae they know. So, as my friend Joi Ito first mentioned in this morning's blog, Markoff of the New York Times got the message slightly wrong. The Washington Post did slightly better.
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