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why would you hope for something like that? what do you gain if Windows/iOS/OSX go broke?
by harigov 13y ago
why would you hope for something like that? what do you gain if Windows/iOS/OSX go broke?
- mapleoin 13y agoFreedom.
- Robby2012 13y agoDo you really think you're going to get freedom from Google?
- ff10 13y agoThe freedom to not choose between a multitude of operating systems?
- S4M 13y agoDude, I'd fear much more Google controlling the OS market than Apple or Microsoft, even though I am not found of them, far from it.
- untog 13y agoAnd Chrome OS represents freedom now?
- sz4kerto 13y agoThe fact that people have this perception makes me sad.
- mamcx 13y agoIs more dangerous the perception of freedom than the understanding of limits. The best dictators spread the freedom mantra and the more gullible believe it.
- seiji 13y agoReminder: by living The Google Lifestyle of Google Docs, Google Mail, Google Search History, Google Bookmarks, Google Social Network, Google Driving History, Google Location Tracking, Google Thought Interface, you allow all that to be nicely indexed for quick handoff to third parties (improperly motivated employees, NSLs, etc) without your consent. I'm pretty sure if you say "google" and "freedom" in front of RMS you'll get your head chopped off.
- garg 13y agoFreedom from choice?
- camus 13y agoYeah , freedom to get "locked in the trunk" some might say.
- alrs 13y agoGoogle isn't a shining beacon of hope, but I do delight in seeing hurt put on closed ecosystems. The Apple app store is a flat-out threat to human freedom. I do not want to live in a world where the only software available is the software approved by Apple and the governments that have jurisdiction over it. edit: Note that I take no warmth in it being Google. Yes, they are closed. The good news is that HP just offered up "Not Intel" and "Not Microsoft" preloaded in a laptop form factor. The hardware companies are retreating to neutral corners and leaving the OS vendors to duke it out on their own. This is good for free software and good for the web.
- zobzu 13y agoChromeOS is pretty much closed. You don't have a say on what goes in, you don't have a say on what they're going to do with it, you don't have a say if they want to fully close most of it. In fact, you can only see the parts they let you see (in ChromiumOS), and that is the only difference with Apple or Microsoft (albeit arguyably, Apple also open sources it's kernel)
- Touche 13y agoThis is not true, there isn't much in ChromeOS that's not in ChromiumOS. You can file bugs on crbug.com and they are positive of most requests. And of course you can fork at any time; Chromium is developed in the open.
- ris 13y ago> You don't have a say on what goes in Generally, you remove a washer and you get developer mode. From that point you can change anything. > (albeit arguyably, Apple also open sources it's kernel) When was the last time someone managed to build a binary identical kernel to Apple's from the supplied sources?
- jkscm 13y agoWhich one of Google's services is not a closed system?
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