I see. I was following the thread about the port here a few days ago and read that there were kernel and driver issues as well (and the X11 vs Wayland thing too) but I'll go take a look for any updates.

And as far as I know you'd need nitdroid to use FirefoxOS as you mentioned but although it's not finished it's in a mature enough state that might provide a platform to make porting a nice little experiment at least. I'd do it myself but I don't have the knowledge to build a full OS. Maybe with some guidance and a little help from my friends I would be able to but I'd certainly need to know where to look at. If you have any input on this it would be much appreciated.

Regarding the cloud issue, I agree to an extent: I'm not too fond of them but as far as I understand FirefoxOS keeps it's distance from this by giving support to "packaged" applications as well. You have internal storage and you don't need to have your information in some shady cloud-computing-startup's server that will probably disappear with all your info within the next year.

And the hardware thing is what's most interesting to me, you don't need a giant quad-core phone to fully enjoy a cutting-edge OS.