OT Chrome OS next year

[Balaji Damodaran]

Why so much negativity?

THE GOOGLE is contributing to an open source operating system:


> "The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a
> new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application
> developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will
> automatically work and new applications can be written using your
> favorite web technologies."

src:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

To me it sounds only like good news. Who knows, one day ubuntu might
have that "new windows system" integrated or otherwise into its own
distro!

Linux is here to stay, KDE and GNOME have their user base and there
aren't any signs that they're losing them. Competition among linux
distros should only be to strengthen user experience, convert as many as
possible into the free and open world. 

Competition is healthy. Google might be a market leader, but I don't
think ubuntu, opensuse, fedora are that vulnerable.

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bala


On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 11:42 +0200, Mario Guenterberg wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:22:23AM +0100, james mcm wrote:
> > I'm really worried that the shift to web applications might leave Free
> > Software in the dust, sure we have the AGPL but  it's barely used and so we
> > start miles behind our proprietary competitors.
> > 
> > Sure it might seem nice that Google is contributing a new Windowing System
> > but keep in mind that they are not a Free company (GTalk for example is
> > proprietary), and this might be a push to web applications - which they will
> > still retain the source code for. Read  The Javascript
> > Trap<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html>- when I first
> > read it, I thought it wouldn't be an issue for years, but now
> > I think Stallman must be a clairvoyant.
> > 
> > (Sorry if I did it wrong, this is my first time replying to a mailing list)
> 
> I don't think he's a clairvoyant, but he knows what he says and what
> he does. Another good example is the actually discussion about Mono
> and C#.
> 
> I think Google, as worldwide operating multinational concern,
> follows his own targets and will dominate the entire market.
> 
> This is, in my mind, the only challange for another Linux based OS,
> comming from Google.
> 
> What to amuse me, is the fact, lets say in german, that all(most) running
> like the lemmings _hinter dem Rattenfaenger_...
> 
> Greetings
> Mario
>