I would also point out the problem of "bitcreep" ( https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars ): Google can keep Chrome-OS and Chrome 'FLOS

I would also point out the problem of "bitcreep" ( https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars https://www.gwern.net/Holy-wars ): Google can keep Chrome-OS and Chrome 'FLOSS' indefinitely much the same way it has kept Android's FLOSSness largely nominal - by simply having complex enough, slowly shifting, incompatible behavior, everything gets sucked in around it. FLOSS is slow, and can only catch up if there is a stable target. (Stephenson covers this in "In The Beginning Was The Commandline" too.) Add in the service-fication of Android, and now the key code and systems aren't even FLOSS, as the FLOSS code exists only as a partial bootloader for the services that every user (and every website or application they use?) require.