Beijing Mozilla Online Ltd (), also called Mozilla China (), is a

limited company In a limited company, the liability of members or subscribers of the company is limited to what they have invested or guaranteed to the company. Limited companies may be limited by Share (finance), shares or by guarantee. In a company limited by ...

to help promote and deploy

Mozilla Mozilla (stylized as moz://a) is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape. The Mozilla community uses, develops, spreads and supports Mozilla products, thereby promoting exclusively free software and open standards, wi ...

products in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

.Ever More Global
April 26th, 2007 Similar to the

Mozilla Corporation The Mozilla Corporation (stylized as moz://a) is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates and integrates the development of Internet-related applications such as the Firefox web browser, by a global community of open- ...

, Mozilla China is a for-profit company funded and created by a non-profit organization (

Mozilla Foundation The Mozilla Foundation (stylized as moz://a) is an American non-profit organization that exists to support and collectively lead the open source Mozilla project. Founded in July 2003, the organization sets the policies that govern development, ...

). Mozilla China was founded on March 4, 2005. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of the

. Mozilla China is co-chaired by Dr. Li Gong of Sun (China) Engineering and Research Institute (ERI) and Mingshu Li of Institute of Software,

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); ), known by Academia Sinica in English until the 1980s, is the national academy of the People's Republic of China for natural sciences. It has historical origins in the Academia Sinica during the Republ ...

(ISCAS), both of whom will sit on the steering committee with

Mitchell Baker Winifred Mitchell Baker (born 1957) is the Executive Chairwoman and CEO of the Mozilla Foundation and of Mozilla Corporation, a subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that coordinates development of the open source Mozilla Internet applications, in ...

, president of the Mozilla Foundation. Mozilla China built a Chinese version of the Mozilla web site, provides technical and architectural direction for Mozilla development in China, organises and operates discussion forums, and further develops Mozilla source code in China.

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