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    10 things to know about Google Chrome OS?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by spradhan01, Jul 10, 2009.

  1. spradhan01

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    Translation: Actually, we're not really designing an operating system. We just take a crippled Linux system, and slap our browser on it. Oh, and of course, since we feel that this would still be too much work, we are going to ask the open source community to do the work for us.

    Right. Those Android phones are selling like hotcakes. Know anyone who has one?

    Oh, that's simple enough to understand: "We want to make tons of money while having others do the work for us." Good business model.

    Are you kidding me? Of course not.

    At this point it may be good to, once again, remind people that Google is not developing an OS at all. It simply grabs other people's work, and tries to profit from it. "Gain favor by its cloud approach"? Other than clueless newspaper columnist (and Google, of course), is anybody seriously interested in having their data "in the cloud"?

    Ah, now look here! I wonder what the open source community thinks about this proposition. "Hey guys, wanna work for us for free, in order to help us make a ton of money, with the final goal of replacing the partial Microsoft OS monopoly with a Google monopoly on all of computing?" I can see the whole open source community come running...

    Uhmm, you mean, those Linux developers that you want to work for you for free, you want them to stab Linux in the back to fill your coffers? Oh, I am absolutely certain that that idea will "attract a big swathe of developers into the Chrome OS camp". God almighty... :rolleyes:

    "Almost certainly"? Interesting. And, yeah, Google may make a bit of money from this, too. That's the whole idea.
     
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  4. ScuderiaConchiglia

    ScuderiaConchiglia NBR Vaio Team Curmudgeon

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    What? You mean the free software community (remember I consider the open source community and free software community to be two distinctly different things) won't want to rush to help beat down the "evil empire" while creating a new empire? Say it ain't so. :D

    Gary


     
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    Shyster1 Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Who's the "we" that assembled these details? Is the OP really a hive-mind?
     
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    We must not let Microsoft control everything! Muwahahahhahahahaha!
     
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    kegobeer 1 hr late but moving fast

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    I spent some time at the Azure website, reading about the Microsoft vision of cloud computing (which might be the big Microsoft cloud computing announcement that is reportedly going to happen next week). It is definitely something that businesses can leverage, especially since Azure was developed to be fully compatible with Server 2008, which means companies can run a local server and also take advantage of cloud computing. Very neat stuff.

    With all of that whizzing around in my head, I fail to see the need for some new, open source operating system designed "for the cloud".
     
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    Angelic Kickin' back :3

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    I'll have to try this on my other partition. :)
     
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    LIVEFRMNYC Blah Blah Blah!!!

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    I like almost everything Google does, but I'm not excited about this at all.



    Exactly, A browser and a ton of widgets. When given the option of Windows 7 or Chrome OS pre-installed on a netbook, I guarantee most will choose Windows 7.
     
    LIVEFRMNYC, Jul 12, 2009
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    Closed for plagiarism.
     
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