OT Chrome OS next year

[Karl F. Larsen]

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Siggy Brentrup wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 12:35:11PM +0530, Raseel Bhagat wrote:
> 
>> But just because "GOOGLE" decides to offer it's own Distro, the
>> world is sitting up and taking notice.
> 
>> However, I then reaslised, as someone mentioned earlier, this will
>> probably be good for Open source software acceptance.
> 
> Oh yeah, in order to be DFSG compliant, authors may not limit use of
> their work and hence the whole OSS community will get involved in data
> mining - googles primary business.
> 
>> And who other than Google to pull such a thing off. Suddenly,
>> millions of people will come to know about the concept of open
>> source software and thousands of geeks from "the other side" will
>> start poking around and contributing to code.
> 
>> All in all, this looks like a Win-Win situation to me.
> 
> Excuse me if I disagree.
>   Siggy
> 

	Well true to the Google way of doing business chrome os will be in beta
for 5 years at least! And I agree the hype over a google os is good for
the open source and Linux world.

	The average man-in-the-street has never heard of Linux or open source.
Questions are going to be asked and learn.

73 Karl


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