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Mozilla Inks Deal With Chinese Search Giant

Posted by Zonk on from the let-the-courting-commence dept.

nm writes "The Mozilla Corporation's subsidiary in China has signed a deal with Chinese search engine giant Baidu. Baidu is already included as an option in Firefox's Chinese localization, but this deal formalizes the relationship between Mozilla and and the search company. Mozilla has established several other initiatives in China to help increase Firefox adoption, particularly in universities. The article notes that Firefox has seen limited uptake in China; the browser Maxthon is the second most popular after Internet Explorer. Maxthon is thought to have as much as 30 percent of the Chinese browser market."

2 of 131 comments (clear)

  1. Your prosecution... by heretic108 · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Your prosecution for viewing illegal Falun Gong literature was brought to you by 100% free open source software."

    I bet that would give a warm fuzzy feeling deep inside.

    What's next? A deal between the Apache Foundation and the US Government, whereby Apache webservers automatically send to the US Government the HTTP fields of any request which serves up a page containing strings such as 'Iraq', 'nuclear', 'jihad' etc?

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    -- In the beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was UNSIGNED, and the main(){} was without form and void...
  2. Re:What a Quincidence! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't even get this. I mean, even as flamebait, I don't—it . . . it doesn't make sense.