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With another 2 billion people hooking up to the Internet in the next five years, there’s plenty of room for another mobile operating system, Mozilla Chief Executive Gary Kovacs said today in a sales pitch for his new Firefox OS.

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A high-level Samsung executive said at the Mobile World Congress show here that Samsung isn’t interested in Mozilla’s browser-based operating system.

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Basically, Tizen is a Linux-based open-source software platform that is designed for smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and in-car systems. Led by Intel and Samsung in a “technical steering group”, Tizen emerged from the dusty ashes of Nokia’s MeeGo. It is hoped to be Samsung’s hedge against Google’s Android, and to compete against iOS as well.

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It’s been just a few weeks since Canonical announced Ubuntu for phones, but on Tuesday the company followed up by taking the wraps off the software’s tablet counterpart.