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Is there in the world of operating systems something like a decalogue of what can and what can not be done? Is it frowned upon by the community of developers and users to emulate the practice or copy the idea from the competition? Can not read the same practice as a listening and receptivity to innovations that actually benefit the whole society of users and has been developed by another? It is very difficult to answer these questions, especially when we know that in the market, no matter which branch is, there are no clear rules, but many times the code is not written himself participants know intuitively and opaque .
These questions arise in the context of a news story these days has come to light in the small world of blog readers who specialize in operating systems, we refer to the fact that Mozilla is in the process of producing its own operating system. And since the foundation intends to make the best possible way but we have not been able to highlight these issues, which are those that haunt the mind of every developer when creating something new.
Are there any effective global development of the OS? Or rather, there is a copy and recycling of the old? Read more
Mozilla could stop development on Windows Phone
Stuart Parmenter , Mozilla said on its blog that it will stop development on Windows Phone. He argues that the new Windows Phone 7 will be accepted based programs Silverlight or XNA, not possible to native software. Therefore, and until it is released an SDK that allows it, Mozilla will focus on creating products for Android and Maemo.
Firefox Mobile (Fennec) 1.0 for Maemo
Just released version 1.0 of Firefox Mobile (Fennec project) for mobile phones. For now only available for Nokia Maemo (N810 and N900 terminals), still in alpha for Windows Mobile, and in early stage of development for Google Android.
This version 1.0 does not support plugins, but extensions (add-ons), although at present only 40 are supported.
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