IDG News Service - Mozilla has launched a new project to build an operating system for mobile devices that will run applications primarily on the Web.
They call the project Boot to Gecko (B2G) and say the plan is to build a "complete, standalone operating system for the open web."
The goal appears similar to one that Google cited when it initially started work on Android. In an online discussion about B2G, Andreas Gal, one of its lead developers, said the ultimate goal was "breaking the stranglehold of proprietary technologies over the mobile devices world."
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