If they release the code, it's Free. Google's going to release it before they ship. Now if it's useful on a desktop...
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:51 PM, john fleming<[email protected]> wrote: > Interesting development. They said they will release the source code > sometime this year. It's hard to imagine that it won't have some helpful > innovations in it that will fork into a freeer version,over time . > JF > > --- On Wed, 7/8/09, Fred James <[email protected]> wrote: > > From: Fred James <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] Google vaporware announcement (Doors of Expression > flavored ranting) > To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, July 8, 2009, 5:24 PM > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > > -- Edward P. Craig "Think this through with me. Let me know your mind" Hunter/Garcia _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
