Mozilla moves into China

Archived on Thu Mar 10 16:08:25 2005

The Mozilla Foundation has established Mozilla China, an affiliate and non-pro
fit organization that will help develop and promote open-source Mozilla softwa
re in China.

Mozilla China is being backed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of
Software, and Sun Microsystems. The group will be co-chaired by Gong Li, gener
al manager of Sun China's Engineering and Research Institute, and Li Mingshu,
of the Institute of Software, Mozilla said in a statement Friday. Li and Gong
will sit on the Mozilla China steering committee alongside Mitchell Baker, pre
sident of the Mozilla Foundation, it said.

Mozilla's open-source software is used in products including the Firefox and C
amino Web browsers and the Thunderbird e-mail client.

Mozilla China is the third international Mozilla affiliate to be established,
the statement said. The other two are Mozilla Europe and Mozilla Japan. Mozill
a China will be responsible for development of the Chinese version of the Mozi
lla Web site and discussion forums and will lead the development of Mozilla so
urce code in China, it said.

Sun aims to play a major role in the development of Mozilla source code in Chi
na and has established a Mozilla browser development team in Beijing, Gong sai
d in the statement.


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