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Mozilla to develop mobile operating system

article published on 27 July, 2011

Boot to Gecko project draws on some parts of Google's Android. Gecko is the rendering engine that is used by the Firefox browser to display content from the web. Mozilla is looking to expand its capabilities to be at the core of a web-centred operating system that will be developed in the open with all code shared as soon as it is written. The OS will draw on some parts of Google's ... [ read the full article ]

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_ 		27. July 2011 @ 15:45 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hell yea! I've been hoping for this for a good while, maybe I'll get a phone or a tablet if this comes to pass...
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_ 		27. July 2011 @ 21:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Open? Good...show google what they are doing wrong!
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Web-based... F**k it. Not til data plans stop sucking
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I just hope they get a better grasp than what went was going down with FF4 to FF5. Without being too flippant, an OS is quite a step up from an internet browser. And then 'shorty' has a point as well...
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
 Open? Good...show google what they are doing wrong!

So, isn't Android open?

http://source.android.com/

It's the vendors choice to shield the firmwares of their devices, not Google's.

The Android Market is a different matter, though. I understand why Google bans certain devices from accessing it but, eventually, that practice will lead to some proven mistakes, like what happened with the Toshiba Folio, for instance.
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Sorry, duplicate post. Please, moderators, feel free to delete this one. O:)
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