On 2/27/13 11:53 AM, Melvin Carvalho wrote: > At first glance the Firefox Marketplace for Firefox OS may look > similar to the Apple Store or Google Play Store but there is a key > difference: it does not lock you into Mozilla or lock you into your > Firefox OS phone. It enables you to sell a web app that will run on > any open web device by way of the receipt protocol. Non-Mozilla > marketplaces can participate in selling apps on Firefox OS out of the > box by implementing the receipt format and users won’t notice anything > different when running a paid app from either store. > > When other devices support the receipt protocol then theoretically you > could pay for an app once and run it everywhere. There is, of course, > a chicken vs. egg problem here so Mozilla hopes to be the egg that > helps prove out the decentralized receipt concept and iterate on the > protocol. Mozilla invites other vendors to help us work on getting > receipts right so that paid apps are as portable and “webby” as possible. > > [Read More...] > > https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/02/building-a-paid-app-for-firefox-os/ > > I wonder if the firefox marketplace could be a good way to bootstrap > the web app eco system ... > Very nice! It should mesh well with Payswarm, WebID, RWW etc.. The schema translates well to a Vocabulary (or Ontology), so Linked Data is a no-brainer too! -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen Founder & CEO OpenLink Software Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca handle: @kidehen Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/112399767740508618350/about LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen
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