Ben Barrett wrote:
So let me ask this way: how can we (if we want to), overcome our "gag
reflex" at the branding, if indeed there are good and useful tools within?
As activists of appropriate technology, if this contains any of it, we
could discuss the pro's and con's of the contents, beyond the
branding. Google keeps eating up such a variety of technology
companies, there are volumes of discussion to be had on the synergy
they are likely to achieve with what they've got. It strikes me a
little bit like when CPU's started to be engineered by other CPU's,
instead of by humans. When capabilities start growing that fast,
everyone has reason to be a bit shifty ;)
Will "they" in fact, own the desktop at such a point?
ttfn,
Ben
Ben Barrett (or anyone else concerned)
Preface:
I am not a purist, activist, or fanatic, in any form
If you are a corporate wo/man, I should prefer that you leave all of
that at the door, please, if possible - at least for this discussion
Questions:
Google is a corporation, yes? And as such one might presume with
some degree of surety that Google is (a) profit motivated, and (b)
leveraged (perhaps highly so?)
In this, how is Google different from Microsoft, or IBM for that
matter (other than by degree)?
With all of that in mind
How does this "new" OS fit into the/your world to make it better?
This was all prompted by "Will "they" in fact, own the desktop at such a
point?"
Thank you for your time
Regards
Fred James
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