Foxconn Joins the Firefox OS Eco-System

Post by fmstephe » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 8:30 AM UTC

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That is true, but what is the command line tooling like for java? I build java all day inside god-awful IDEs. The last time I tried compiling Java on the command line it was really a lot of work. I suppose there is some maven support for building Android. An even better reason to hope for the best for FFOS.

Android also has decent command line tool support and a build system based on Ant. I'm not a huge fan of ant, but the default setup works all right and is extensible. I've mostly managed to stay inside Emacs for Android development.

Post by patrickaljord » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 10:09 AM UTC

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One could consider Foxconn evil (I don't) and still recognize that it plays a very important role in the tech industry (most tech hardware gets assembled there after all) and therefor the fact that a huge player like Foxconn joins FirefoxOS could be seen as an important endorsement for Firefox and be celebrated by Firefox users/fans (which I am not). The fact that you could turn a story like that into an occasion to…

I don't see FirefoxOS as the mobile OS for "Firefox users." It transcends the choice of browser in my opinion, it becomes something grander (as in Web standards native apps, and standing for freedom in the mobile market, much as Mozilla has stood for it in the browser market, but phones are surely in much more dire need of openness these days.) I'm not a desktop Firefox user as well, but neither am I a desktop Androi…

Post by kmasters » Tue, Jun 04, 2013, 10:19 AM UTC

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I can't see how this partnership is not acceptable. Firefox is an NGO for the open web not one for human rights.

Why can't they be both? I can't celebrate this, even though I like Firefox and encourage their push for open web. But any company that has to install countermeasures to prevent worker suicides on premise isn't exactly aces in my book...