| Mozilla to set up China office |
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issue time:2007-03-10 08:12
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Feb. 5, 2007 (China Knowledge) - Mozilla.org, which produces popular software applications like Firefox and Thunderbird, is opening a China office to take on Microsoft in the world’s second largest Internet market.
California-based Mozilla already has a presence in China via a not-for-profit foundation supporting open-source software projects, but the Beijing office will be its first real corporate presence, Mozilla Chief Operating Officer John Lilly said Friday.
Mozilla, which offers Internet browser Firefox as an alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, said that it is not the company’s goal to make sure that everyone uses Firefox.
“My main goal is that people know there's a choice--that going on the Internet is not just clicking the blue 'E',” Lilly said, referring to Microsoft's Internet Explorer desktop icon.
The organization, which has around 80 million to 100 million users globally and around 1 million in China, aims to educate China’s open-source developers as they aim to localize their products to suit the requirements of Chinese web user.
Market analysts believe that they are in a good position looking at the increasing efforts from the Chinese government to curb piracy in the market.
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