Sam Tuke <[email protected]> wrote: > "This week we are announcing our new Firefox OS developer preview > phones because we believe that developers will help bring the power of > the web to mobile. These developer phones are being developed by > Geeksphone in partnership with Telefonica and Geeksphone." > > This is a very interesting development for Free Software!
I agree that it's a somewhat interesting development, but I'm not so sure about the "awesome" part. > Details: > > https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/01/announcing-the-firefox-os-developer-preview-phone/ There don't seem to be any details about which parts of the system are actually free software. Commenter "Pravin" asks: "I dont understand the details about what is open source and what is not." To which "Robert Nyman" who seems to be some kind of authority "answers": "Basically everything on the phone – UI, apps etc – are based on open standard technologies, HTML5, CSS & JavaScript. This is different from the other major smart phones out there." Even Internet Explorer is "based on open standard technologies, HTML5, CSS & JavaScript". It's still a proprietary product so the answer doesn't seem particular helpful to me and I doubt that this is an accident. Fabian
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