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

24 Jun 2013

this is pretty neat...
http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/24/foxconn-3000-software-workers/
Foxconn wants to step up its Firefox OS development with thousands of
new engineers
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  June 24, 2013 7:34 AM
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When Foxconn announced its support for Firefox
OS<http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/03/foxconn-joins-firefox-os/>s/>,
it wasn’t kidding around.
The manufacturing giant said this weekend that hopes to recruit 3,000
software
engineers<http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2013/06/21/200356…
to
help it develop for Mozilla’s mobile operating system in its software
center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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.)
As Foxconn said in a statement: “There will be no budget limit for
fostering software talent.”
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.
To put it simply: The Foxconn of the future will be a very different beast
from the one we’re used to.