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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @08:07AM (#12588928)
You forgot WebOS, which has been open sourced since HP killed it.

There was a brief flurry of activity around it, including getting it run on older Nexus devices, then it petered out.

I submit that a big part of the problem is fragmentation of effort. There was no reason for Ubuntu, Mozilla, and WebOS all to be aiming at the same target at the same time in very similar ways but by different people.

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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by deaddodo on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:14PM (#12594711)
WebOS is licensed out to LG these days for their Smart TV's. It's still the commercial deal it's been since HP bought it from Palm.

Open WebOS is a different beast (much like how Mozilla wasn't Netscape Navigator), based on the open sourced components of WebOS.

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Re:Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @01:50PM (#12599739)
Well sure, but Open WebOS was complete enough to boot on Galaxy Nexus and provide a mostly complete environment.
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