The cost per MB maybe...

Depends on what you call "mature". I am 44 and work on COBOL a few times a year doing contract work for a couple of healthcare gigs. Mostly maintaining (or porting the programs to SAS http://www.sas.com/) it is actually quite lucrative if you don't mind doing it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

In looking for something elegant you are going to make it more complex and increase the probability that it will fail.

So will it install itself / configure itself / update itself / teach end users how to use it all without any interaction from a human?

I guess I can fire my IT staff and contact this Linux thingamajig and get started right away all for free no cost to my company...

That is the problem they have no new original ideas.

Sounds very similar to various "Startup" weekends that I have attended lately.

3...2...1

With all that user data it would seem rather logical as the next step.

Seriously, you think that the majority of Android phone users know it is built upon Linux? You give these people more credit than I would. It succeeded due to the Fisher Price interface of current smartphones.

Isn't that typical of all Anonymous Coward's?

Being the poor sap that has to open up all those links and read the contents. You would think that they could automate it somehow, so they didn't have to read the chat message and then click on the link...

I just had a brilliant idea, a headless browser... I'll make millions...

Funny reading all these comments on how great FirefoxOS will be and how everyone will get access to sub $200 smartphones and how great it will be having an open phone, blah, blah, blah.

People were singing the praise when Google was doing the same thing and look how that turned out. Unless Mozilla or whoever is backing this endeavor can be like Apple and make/distribute their own hardware along with control the underlying OS and how it is bundled with the hardware it will fall the same way as Google did. Telco providers will just implement their own draconian limits on the device (with regards to updates/services) and you all will be no better than you were before.

And this is different than say cell phone providers or cell phone software vendors? Google, RIM and MS would rather you buy a new device with the latest software than have to support some older version of the software I am sure.

The last movie I watched via XBox Video probably had DRM up the ying-yang but it seemed to work ok, what damage are you talking about?

Wow I read that and just realized that the growing number of Android users are just as clueless as the majority of Windows users now...

But then that's what Google wants in it's users, lambs that will follow it and keep on thinking "do no evil". That is what the ecosystem business model has become.

The reason why is because of the rampant false claims made by professional groups of people who make it their living from causing accidents and making claims. It has nothing to do with being a snitch rather than saving your own ass and if it helps the insurance company and you save money I say good for them.

Personally I have a dash cam in my car ever since some a-hole tried to run me off the road when I would not let him in to the line of traffic because he used the shoulder (against the law here) to get to the front of the line. I wish they would offer that kind of discount here.