Mozilla, home to the brains behind Firefox, is planning to build its very own mobile OS. The project called Boot to Gecko or B2G broke cover on the Mozilla Developer Group yesterday. Its aim is to create a standalone operating system that will use web technologies to deliver all of its applications.
Think that sounds a lot like what Google is trying to do with Chrome OS? Well, you’d be right but the difference is that Mozilla is focused on mobile and, interestingly, it plans to build Boot to Gecko on an Android foundation. Could this be the truly open source OS many people have been craving?
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