Mozilla is moving into China

Mozilla is looking at opening shop in China to get closer and more involved with that market to push the open source opportunities. Mozilla is the employer to 100 staff members who are scattered throughout the world, who together with volunteers chug away at testing and sharing open source software that comprises of the Firefox browser. Their biggest goal with the new office is to educate the open source Chinese market, and adapt and mold it for local tastes and requirements. With fewer than 100 Million Mozilla users around the world, there are one million who call China home. China's government rules on software piracy and expensive licenses look to sway residents to shift towards the open source market. As the second largest Internet using area in the world, behind the US, 137 Million users could soon be getting cozier to Mozilla's technology.

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