Boot 2 Gecko - Future of the open web

I wonder if this can really make an impact with a bad name and all the patent trolls around. If you look at the patent wars between Android / iOS and Microsoft I wonder how many patents have been infringed knowingly or not in Mozilla's offering.

I support this, I feel there should be more competition in the mobile market but at the same time it looks like something geeky people would run just to say 'look what I can do to my phone'.