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Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 02:51:37PM +0100, tom wrote: > >> Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote: >> >>> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 01:18:30PM +0100, Julian Hall wrote: >>> >>> >>>> 'Google is developing an operating system (OS) for personal computers, >>>> in a direct challenge to market leader Microsoft and its Windows >>>> system. Google Chrome OS will be aimed initially at small, low-cost >>>> netbooks, but will eventually be used on PCs as well.' >>>> >>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8139711.stm >>>> >>>> It'll need to look enough like Windows for users to accept it, >>>> whatever's under the bonnet. >>>> >>>> >>> They’re actually not. “Google Chrome OS” is a windowing system on top of >>> the Linux kernel, designed to run nothing but Google Chrome. There will >>> be no applications but web applications. >>> >>> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html >>> >>> Yet another way to lock people into proprietary services. >>> >> Just about everything its built on is gpl! I personally thing its a bit >> of a dogs dinner - most of the technologies involved are there because >> MS screwed up current web browser implementations of the same and people >> don't realise they're using new technologies to do old things! >> > > Where’s the source code for Google Mail? Where’s the source code for > Facebook? The point of Google Chrome OS is to get people to use no > applications but web applications. Web applications should be free too. > > I'm not sure I'd want the code for Google Mail - or facebook come to that. That kind of web application will never be free and I will never want it. I use yahoo mail because I'm too lazy to configure my own online mail from home but the 'someone else in control' makes them not-wanted systems for me. Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html