OT Chrome OS next year

[Nils Kassube]

james mcm wrote:
> I wouldn't be so optimistic - a corporation never does anything out
> of goodwill. They will help offline Free Software just so that more
> people can have good access to their online services, but that
> doesn't make them a friend of Free Software - all their online
> services are proprietary and closed source. If anything this could be
> the doomsday scenario for Free Software -  a push to web services
> where Free Software has effectively no presence (due to running costs
> of servers, etc.), Google will then expand their online services to
> cover more and more of what is traditionally done off-line until
> everyone uses Google's proprietary services and have no Freedom to
> modify or redistribute the software.

Interestingly you are writing this from a Google account :)


Nils