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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 2008 01:21:38 +0100
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Google Chrome
Message-ID:  <20080904012138.4ff77804@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <20080904004712.R1670@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:47:34 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:

> > For most people that's already happened, except that it's
> > Adobe-Flash WWW. Google's approach of open-source software, and
> > open-extensions, leading to new standards, sounds a lot better to
> > me.
> 
> except it leads to google-everything. not even a bit better than 
> microsoft-everything

There's a lot of difference. Microsoft has always tried to undermine
standards because standards give its competitors a more level-playing
field, which is what Google needs for its webapps to compete with
Microsoft's desktop applications. I don't see how that's bad for
anyone except Microsoft.



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