Ambitious? Yes. Reasonable? Mozilla claims that his argument is built on the desire to give developers the ability to build web applications or native applications in HTML5 functionality. And here you remember OS Chrome, the Google project with a similar goal. In fact, Mozilla plans to spend a large part of another product Google - Android. While some code for the platform open-source can be used, the company says many of the system will freshly encoded.
In essence, to start a project Gecko is open source, shared as soon as written. You may also wonder about the origin of the name of the project, but is actually derived from the Gecko rendering engine, running both Firefox and email client of the beam. The code is still in its infancy and there is no shortage of competition for the big players like Google itself, but Apple and Microsoft Windows Phone IOS. You may be skeptical about the whole company but there is nothing skeptical with regard to the idealism of Mozilla "break the stranglehold of proprietary technologies in the mobile world" is everything the company wants to do.
