[sudo-discuss] foxconn stepping it up with the mozilla OS

[Anca Mosoiu]

Adding massive numbers of engineers to a project is not a way to "step up" the process.

Just sayin'.

Anca.

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On Jun 24, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Romy Ilano wrote:

> this is pretty neat... 
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> http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/24/foxconn-3000-software-workers/
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> Foxconn wants to step up its Firefox OS development with thousands of new engineers
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> Image by Imaginechina/Corbis
> June 24, 2013 7:34 AM 
> Ricardo Bilton
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> July 9-10, 2013
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> When Foxconn announced its support for Firefox OS, it wasn’t kidding around.
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> The manufacturing giant said this weekend that hopes to recruit 3,000 software engineers to help it develop for Mozilla’s mobile operating system in its software center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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> To put that number in context, the Kaohsiung center currently houses 300 workers, making the addition of 3,000 new employees a pretty massive investment. (The company had initially expected to hire from 500 and 1,000 workers.)
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> As Foxconn said in a statement: “There will be no budget limit for fostering software talent.”
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> The move is an important one for Foxconn, which is moving away from simply making devices for big foreign companies like Apple. instead, the company is pursuing what it calls a “‘eight screens, one network, and one cloud’ strategy,” which essentially means that wants to have a greater role in both the hardware and software design of the devices made in its factories.
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> To put it simply: The Foxconn of the future will be a very different beast from the one we’re used to.
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