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 ## Goals
 
-emqttd is aimed to provide a solid, enterprise grade, extensible open-source MQTT broker for IoT(M2M) applications that could support ten millions of concurrent MQTT clients.
+emqttd is aimed to provide a solid, enterprise grade, extensible open-source MQTT broker for IoT(M2M) applications that need to support ten millions of concurrent MQTT clients.
 
 ## Architecture