On Tuesday 02 Sep 2008, Yashpal Nagar wrote: > Google is launching an open source web browser to compete with > Internet Explorer and Firefox. > > The browser is designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with > the next generation of web applications that rely on graphics and > multimedia.
Anyone know why Google prefers to start applications competing with existing FOSS projects (and then freeze them) rather than collaborating with and strengthening the existing applications? They hit Openmonko hard with their Android announcement and then tarpitted the developers, so now both Openmoko and Android are sufferers. I'm concerned that a Google browser announcement would end up migrating Firefox developers in the thousands to that platform, for a product that is nothing but vapourware right now and which no one knows when will see the light of day. Not too late to start supporting the existing developers and projects instead of starting your own incompatible projects, Google! Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
