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Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS

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Re: Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS

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Larry Ellison doesn't seem to agree with your "nothing to do with [...] JVM" assertion, to the tune of a 9.3 billion USD lawsuit, and indeed Google itself is developing Fuchsia with no java stack at all in it. Moreover, it's not Linux if you have to use a Java API to do anything useful.

Nothing to do from the point of view of the headaches that brings to those of us that care about Java. And everything to do regarding being a fork on the Java ecosystem, and I side with Oracle. It remains to be seen if Brillo or Fuchsia will have any relevance on the market, even when coming from Google.

and I'm not a java lover as you can tell, but I can super-appreciate that for java guys, having some fork that tries to be java-not-java and confuses the ecosystem, is a pain in the butt. Be java fully committed and move it forward, or leave java well alone. Don't sit there and create a java version of the Python 2/3 mess that screws everyting up. I can totally appreciate that. Well put.

Re: Mozilla has stopped all commercial development on Firefox OS

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post #296

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And for that reason, it's worth recognizing how much work ahead there is for the web platform to be capable of delivering full OS experience. Only now, pieces of the HTML/DOM/JS spec that have been kickstarted out of need when FxOS was being developed start landing in the spec. Whoever will try next, will have an easier job because of the FxOS experience. source: I'm an engineer who worked on FxOS in 2014-2016

Or it's worth recognizing that trying to deliver full OS experience with Web technology is a waste of time.

"It always seems impossible until it's done."
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