Re: Google Chrome OS on Linux

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
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