It does not. http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/cathedral-bazaar/ etc. etc.
When we tire of leasing our data to google or if/when google's services become inferior to those provided by NextBigThing, Inc., the OS can be adapted by the community. The nice thing about an "open source operating system" is that its purpose is whatever we want it to be. Cheers Jason On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Dave Fancella <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > It'll be Linux-based and opened source, so I'm happy :) > > > > An open source operating system whose entire purpose is for you to > store your data on a proprietary third party server sorta defeats the > purpose of open source programming, does it not? > > Dave > > Visit my website! > http://www.davefancella.com > > Also, I'm currently looking for a job. So while you're at my website, > look at my resume! > http://www.davefancella.com/resume/dave.html > > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:27 AM, Timothy R. Chavez<[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > It'll be Linux-based and opened source, so I'm happy :) > > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Alex S. Jones<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> Google has just announced Chrome OS, "an open source, lightweight > >> operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks." This > >> has some interesting implications for Web professionals. In addition > >> to the improvement of netbooks, which will see major growth in the new > >> few years given the migration of data and key apps to the cloud > >> (Google Apps are no longer in beta by the way), this opens the path > >> for a wide variety of Web-based apps built by small companies and > >> entrepreneurs to make a splash. > >> > >> Announcement: http://tr.im/chros > >> Wired's Take: http://tr.im/chros2 > >> > >> What's your take? > >> > >> Alex Jones > >> www.SilverSpider.com > >> www.twitter.com/BaldMan > >> www.RefreshAustin.org > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > -tim > > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
