Google Chrome OS on Linux

[Tuna]

Top posting as a crazed act of revenge,

I'm actually with Ryan on this one. Open Source is almost trendy,
largely because of Google and their Android platform. Now netbook owners
everywhere will brag about their Linux-based open source operating
system, forgetting the freedoms they give up with could computing. And
people ask my why I hate Google (nothing personal, I know Google peeps
watch this list, I just don't like your employer).

There was an article in last month's Free Software Foundation Bulletin
about Free network services. Featured were Libre.fm and Identi.ca, Free
software replacements for last.fm and Twitter, respectively. I guess
that's all we can do, get creative web people on our side, using the
AGPL.

Jesus, I miss the days of finger. Social networking done right!

Excerpts from Ryan Rix's message of Tue Jul 07 23:20:28 -0700 2009:
> On Tue 7 July 2009 10:24:10 pm Alan Dayley wrote:
> > Google announced the concept of a new operating system they are
> > calling Google Chrome OS.
> >
> > http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
> >
> > "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."
> >
> > Will be Open Source with netbooks using it by 2nd half of 2010.
> >
> > Exciting!
> 
> And so begins the destruction of Free software :(
> 
> Moving to the cloud (using the linux kernel, no less!) will only make it 
> easier to provide closed and proprietary systems to the user. Sure, they may 
> be free as in beer, but try getting a hold of the sourcecode for gmail, or 
> flickr, or facebook. You can't. Yet, these dominate the world of even 
> GNU/Linux free software nuts. The web is not as open and free of a place that 
> the world makes it out to be.
> 
> All in all, a scary turn, and I fear that google is silently breaking its 
> "don't be evil" mantra, though its doing it in the slyest and most profound 
> way: By using free software against itself. I suppose it's time to do as Bob 
> Elzer says and "be a real man" and set up dIMAP account on KMail...
> 
> A sad day, imo,
> Ryan