Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:27:59 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Fred C" <fred@bsdhost.net>, "RW" <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Google Chrome Message-ID: <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCMEOBCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <08472905-EBEC-403D-9D35-5E8EA6BA269B@bsdhost.net>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Fred C > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:21 PM > To: RW > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Google Chrome > > > > On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:21 PM, RW wrote: > > > 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. > > So you mean that google is learning from the Microsoft mistakes. Or > maybe > google need to get along with the standards for now, but as soon as > they have > secured the market they will define the standards as they need it to > be for their > benefit. > Since they are defining standards that are implemented in open source code under BSD license I don't see the problem. You can complain the day that Adobe releases the source for Acrobat Reader, and Flash, under BSD license, and Google closes the source for Chrome, OK? Ted
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