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 Discussi on 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. http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php/id190926198;fp;2;fpid;1
