Mozilla China

Mozilla China
Limited company
Founded March 4, 2005 (2005-03-04)
Headquarters Beijing, China
Products Firefox China
Website www.firefox.com.cn

Beijing Mozilla Online Ltd (Chinese: 北京谋智网络技术有限公司), a.k.a. Mozilla China (Chinese: 谋智中国), is a limited company to help promote and deploy Mozilla products in China.

Similar to Mozilla Corporation, Mozilla China is a for-profit company funded and created by a non-profit organization (Mozilla Foundation).[1]

Mozilla China was founded on March 4, 2005. It is independent of the Mozilla Foundation, but is affiliated with them.

Mozilla China is co-chaired by Dr. Li Gong of Sun (China) Engineering and Research Institute (ERI) and Mr. Mingshu Li of Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ISCAS), both of whom will sit on the steering committee with Mitchell Baker, president of the Mozilla Foundation.

Mozilla China build a Chinese version of the Mozilla web site, provide technical and architectural direction for Mozilla development in China, organize and operate discussion forums, and develop Mozilla source code in China.

References

  1. "谋智宫力:竞争不是拳击赛 与谷歌合作是双赢". 腾讯科技. 2008-12-09. Retrieved 2015-06-05. 我们为什么做这件事情?我们到底是一个什么样的公司?大家可能听说过火狐是开源,基金会之类的,我想稍微解释一下,我们公司是一个不太典型的公司,我在招人的时候,或者跟客户、合作伙伴解释时,解释不太清楚,我们公司属于一个非盈利的慈善事业机构的基金会出资办的商业性公司。



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