Mozilla's Connected Devices Innovation Process: Four Projects Move Forward
I participated in Gnome and Linux kernel development in 2002-2008, that was an amazing time. Those days open source systems were successfully competing with commercial software, Firefox was on edge, Linux desktop was really promising, Linux kernel was widely used everywhere. Drivers for various devices were created by hackers. I left once I saw that corporations are taking over. Redhat and Novel decisions started to set the direction, I felt I can not contribute anything.<p>Mozilla foundation attitude has been changed since then, it is simply a corporation, not an open source community, I really doubt it will come up with something significant.<p>Just few days ago I spent half of the day cleaning bloatware from an Acer desktop, Sony Tablet and a Samsung phone, this is really crazy how every small company wants to catch you with a push button daemon that will in parallel store all information about you and sell it later. We desperately need some alternative - an open source phone at least where you can control all the components. However, I see that things like voice input or good navigation would be very hard to create for the open source community.