Mozilla wants to launch its own operating system

Mozilla plan to launch your own operating system, Boot to Gecko, whose goal is to ever function independently in phones and tabletsand that will compete directly with Google's Chrome OS.

The mission of this initiative is displace proprietary technologies for application development, replacing them with open web technologies, that manage to match or exceed the capabilities of native applications on platforms such as iOS, Android or Windows Phone.

The first step in reaching that goal will be to develop new APIs that allow access to the devices and the different features offered by the OS (telephony, SMS, camera, USB, among others), directly from web pages or applications. To do this, a privilege model, to make sure that everything happens in a safe framework.

Once both stages are completed, the most important challenge will arrive: get it to run on Android compatible devices, for which it is likely that is based in part of your code. Afterwards, you just have to demonstrate what the system is capable of, through application development or migration. Mozilla's idea is not to allow these applications to run well on Firefox, but on the "open" web.

El source code will published en real time, sending the additions to groups that work on standards, and then track the changes. Although the project is in its initial stages, it is interesting to see the new possibilities that will open up to developers and consumers, who will no longer depend so much on specific manufacturers and their different policies. We will have to see how it takes shape.

Source: mozilla wiki & Bitelia