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Title: Mozilla enters smartphone operating system business
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Published: Jul 27, 2011
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Post Date: 2011-07-27 05:35:38 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, July 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Mozilla announced Boot to Gecko (B2G), a new operating system, to crown the open source organization’s entry into the smartphone operating system business, according to media reports Wednesday.

The organization said it“believes that the Web can displace proprietary, single-vendor stacks for application development” with a cloud-based operating system based around HTML 5.

In other words, Mozilla wants to free smartphone users from the tyranny of not only proprietary smartphone OSes like Android and Windows Phone, but whole widget devices like Apple’s iOS ecosystem, too.

The group thinks it can accomplish this mission with an open source OS and Web apps.

In a blog post announcing the project, the group said, “We want to take a bigger step now, and find the gaps that keep Web developers from being able to build apps that are -- in every way -- the equals of native apps built for the iPhone, Android, and WP7.”

The project is being built from the ground up. More specifically, the Mozilla team said that it will be working on a prototype of“a low-level substrate for an Android-compatible device.”

The news has been greeted with a mixed reaction from the tech blogosphere and the mainstream media.

Questions so far centered around whether the market is asking for an open source operating system for smartphones, and if a group that has had so much trouble delivering a fully functional mobile browser is capable of shepherding such a product to completion.

(Agencies) Editor: Deng Shasha

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