When those shiny Chrome things get used and beaten up, rust spots showing through, bits flaking off , etc ... then they start to look real tacky and so yesterday.

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [wlug] Fwd: FW: Google announces Chrome operating system From: Simon Green <simon(a)simongreen.name> Date: Thu, July 09, 2009 11:08 am To: Waikato Linux Users Group <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz>

2009/7/9 Roderick Aldridge <rod-a(a)hnpl.net>

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Yes, I think it is a two-edged sword for FOSS. It has the potential to split and weaken FOSS - Chrome browser is a competitor of Firefox.

I think it is excellent news. We already have a variety of GUI based browser (epiphany for gnome and konquerer for KDE). Chromium (the Chrome based browser for Linux) is a long way off from being production ready though (it still doesn't support plugins like flash or gears).

ComputerWorld has an article today[1] about the privacy aspect of ChromeOS. As it's open source, any one that wants to know what the code is doing can do so. That's something that Microsoft don't offer.

-- simon

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