I think there actually was and is a lot of outside interest in a open and web stack oriented phoneOS. The firefox OS website tried to divide visitors into hard

I think there actually was and is a lot of outside interest in a open and web stack oriented phoneOS. The firefox OS website tried to divide visitors into hardware vendors, consumers and app writers. Imagine the success of Linus's first announcement if he told people which lines they could stand in to appreciate Linux when he was done writing it.. Digging deeper than you appeared to be welcome would get you into setup tasks with AOSP.. There is no better way to lose help then to ask them to learn about a more complete competitor.