June 2, 2007
Firefox China Set To Be Launched?
The other day I came across an article that entitled a former executive of MSN has joined Mozilla’s Chinese subsidiary, Mozilla Online, as its chairman and CEO. Li Gong, the new Chairman and CEO left MSN China on December 4 last year, was a key man in several companies include Sun and MSN China. Other than this, he also holds a first degree, and Master at Tsinghua University and a PhD holder at Cambridge University. Prior to joining Mozilla, he was a visiting professor at Stanford and Cornell University and as a member of the editor committee of IEEE Internet Computing and ACM TISSEC, according to this article (in Mandarin).
However, Li Gong explained his role at Mozilla is to set up a new company, i.e. Beijing Mou-Zhi Network Technologies Ltd. 谋智网络技术有限公司 in this July.
…..increasing adoption of the Firefox browser and other relevant products and technologies in China, building local developer and user communities, developing local partnerships, and participating in and helping to advance the state of art of open source software in China.
Nevertheless, there will be no such “Firefox China” to be launched, according to a news (in Mandarin) in China.
