Gecko will power an open mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets that will be built by Mozilla. Instead of today's proprietary technology, Mozilla's open Boot to Gecko OS will break the "stranglehold" in mobile devices. Even Google's Android has become proprietary, and future mobile devices will run from the cloud, an analyst said.
Mozilla has begun work on a mobile operating system for smartphones and tablets based on the free open-source Gecko engine for HTML layout used in many applications created by the organization's developer community. The goal is to displace today's proprietary, single-vendor stacks for mobile-app development with an open mobile OS called Boot to Gecko (B2G).
Though Mozilla's developers continue to work on Google's Android, they see the need for an alternative because Google's mobile platform has APIs based on a "proprietary Google sauce" rather than freely available web standards.
"Android used to be at least 'available source' where Google would publish internally developed source code/technology after the fact as products ship, but even those times seem to be over now," noted Mozilla researcher Andreas Gal. "I would love to boot my custom Android build on my Galaxy Tab 10-inch, but no luck. Google refuses to release the source code."
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