Mozilla Seeks Growth, Tie-ups in China
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| Mozilla, which develops open source Web browser Firefox, the biggest
| alternative to Microsoft's Internet Explorer, aims to at least double its
| share this year in China, which is set to become the world's largest Web
| market.
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| California-based Mozilla expects the going to be tough in a country where
| consumers are largely unaware of open source and businesses typically base
| their services on Explorer, Gong Li, CEO of Mozilla Online, said on Monday.
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http://www.internetnews.com/breakingnews/article.php/3730076
Third African FOSS conference heads to Senegal
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| Time is running out to register for Idlelo 3, the third African Conference on
| Free and Open Source Software and the Digital Commons. The conference will be
| held in Dakar, Senegal between 16 and 20 March.
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http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=2185
Related:
Africa: 'Microsoft is Imperialistic' Says Open Source Advocates
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| Microsoft Corporation's products have been locked out of the
| on-going World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi Kenya.
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| With over 300 computers provided for participants and the press,
| organizers of the WSF have preferred to provide open source
| software products and blocked all Microsoft related products for
| the forum's usage and its related activities.
|
| [...]
|
| Activists at the forum also believe that since Microsoft is a
| corporate brand from the United States of America, a country
| they believe has intentions of maintaining the status quo of
| a unipolar world over which it is above international law and
| the UN, the brand should be locked out.
|
| [...]
|
| "The open source movement is providing Linux, a robust free
| software. Everybody owns it and it can be shared. And this
| is what WSF is all about - a free society, a movement
| fighting for ownership of free resources" he adds.
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http://allafrica.com/stories/200701230831.html
Microsoft browser rival Mozilla eyes China
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| 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 on
| Friday.
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| [...]
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| Mozilla employs 100 staff worldwide, but has a much larger
| community of volunteers who test, tweak and share open-source
| software such as Linux, on which Firefox is based.
|
| Mozilla operates through tie-ups with Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.,
| targeting individual Web surfers, while open-source heavyweight
| and main Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. and, recently,
| Oracle Corp., target corporate clients.
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http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=47187
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