Re: [LUG] [Fwd: Google to launch operating system]

["Benjamin M. A'Lee" <bma-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 05:04:07PM +0100, tom wrote:
> 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

That’s my point exactly. “Google Chrome OS” is web-applications only;
unless there are free webapps to do what you want (which, chances are,
there aren’t at the the moment), you’re stuck using a proprietary
system.

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