On 04/02/2016 19:39, baux wrote: > why not simply let the comunity devel firefox os for smartphone as a > totally open source project in MDN house? > > do you think there isn't interest on this lovely OS? :-)
I'm sure there is and we're all for people from the community actively contributing to the project but we also need to offer a measure of help. Firefox OS is based on Gecko and without active maintenance it may be that the infrastructure we built around it breaks because of changes in Gecko. The project needs active development to keep it working and I think we should help ensure that. Now don't get me wrong, anybody can take the sources and do whatever they want with them, they're there and there's nobody stopping you from doing it, but a concerted effort is a better proposition IMHO. > why? Because the Firefox brand is used for Mozilla products, a community build, fork or spin-off will have to use a different name. It's not a big thing - think of the alternative browsers built on the Gecko codebase (Waterfox, Pale Moon, etc...) - but it needs to be done. Besides Firefox OS wasn't a very good name to start with IMHO :-| > please don't drop everything, I think a web based os of for > smartphones, which are one of the most pervasive media out there, and > others consumer stuff (tv, tablet, etc...) is a great thing. Built upon > a standadized WEB api... I saw this as a great idea, and I like it and > appreciate it. I'm all for keeping the project running and especially for keeping it running with active input from the community - instead of a roadmap driven by OEMs and carriers - and possibly even turning it into something less ambitious but more flexible so that people can truly innovate with it. Unfortunately I'm not the one calling the shots here. Gabriele
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