On 12 Feb 2014, at 20:41, Chris Peterson <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2/12/14, 10:25 AM, Chris Mills wrote:
>> A quick terminology question:
>> 
>>  What is more correct, "Boot to Gecko" or “Boot2Gecko” ?
>> 
>> Obviously “B2G” is more correct than “BtoG” or other such variants, but we 
>> weren’t sure about the expanded version. We want to get it correct across 
>> all docs, going forward.
> 
> Firefox OS? I thought we were supposed to avoid the names "Boot2Gecko" and 
> "B2G"? Or is B2G our white-label branding?

As far as I understand it, Firefox OS is B2G/Boot2Gecko + Mozilla’s branding 
and services (and those of our partners, where applicable.) OEMs have to follow 
certain guidelines to have their phone branded as Firefox OS, so B2G is kind of 
a white label of sorts, as well as being the original engineering codename.

Web developers largely don’t care about this distinction, but it matters more 
to platform developers (e.g. those from OEMs.) I’m using “Firefox OS” in most 
places on MDN, but there are a few places where I explain the distinctions 
mentioned above, and I wanted to make sure I got it right.

Chris Mills
   Senior tech writer || Mozilla
developer.mozilla.org || MDN
   [email protected] || @chrisdavidmills



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