The discussion originated in a claim that "anyone who wants to build a Web-browser based netbook could do so, they just couldn't call it ChromeBook". If the We

The discussion originated in a claim that "anyone who wants to build a Web-browser based netbook could do so, they just couldn't call it ChromeBook". If the Web Store remains freely accessible, then they could do that without needing to duplicate it. edit: i.e. the Web Store is playing the same role as any other website. You wouldn't criticize Chrome OS for the difficulty of making an alternative to Facebook for your fork.