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- MWeather, on 07/15/2009, -4/+23Does their strategy involve crying and sucking their thumbs? Because that would be my strategy if Google decided to compete with me.
- KibibyteBrain, on 07/15/2009, -1/+8When was the last time we went back to dumb terminals? Its been all about the PC since the 80s, and before that terminals hooked up to mainframes were all the rage because the cost of a chip that could actually do anything computationally useful was astronomical.
- 8085ta, on 07/15/2009, -0/+71. Create product
2. Wait for Google to enter same market and compete
3. Sell out
4. Profit! - insanebrain, on 07/15/2009, -2/+9Chrome OS is not a OS. It is a OS framework that is only capable of starting a browser that does all the work.
- KiloKaan, on 07/15/2009, -7/+14We're going back towards "dumb terminals"...
- itanshi, on 07/15/2009, -0/+5Funny, but as a budding entrepreneur, I'd relish the flattery and do my best to keep up/keep fresh.
- lordmike, on 07/15/2009, -0/+4I do... I'm not too keen on having my personal data, like finance, spread around a bunch of places where I don't have control and have no idea how it will be used... At least offer some sort of encryption...
- Taiyoryu, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3I'd have to say it's worked pretty well. The top 5 distros have changed over the years with the most popular ones percolating to the top while other less popular distros can serve those who have more niche needs (e.g., run on x486)
- SquareWheel, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3Can we trust the internet with our porn?
- Myztry, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3I heard you like OS's, so I put an OS in your OS. Technically you're right - although it's a system inside a system.
What constitutes an OS has nothing to do with what an OS is due to the way Microsoft has corrupted the term through bundling application and calling them OS components. - Myztry, on 07/15/2009, -0/+3I would like to see some extra functionallity in these BIOS hypervisors so when Microsoft (or whoever) decides that the common folk don't need backup as an essential service they can laugh and say, "it's a boot option anyway - why do I need another backup tool..."
- paulsmith288, on 07/15/2009, -1/+4if it makes things cheap - Im not complaining. I have no secret data that I must keep only on my computers.
- newwatch51, on 07/15/2009, -0/+2Yes, but Chrome OS IS Linux.
- Yage2006, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2I think one of the main barriers to Linux adoption is the fact there are way to many variants.
If all those people working on different versions would concentrate there efforts on making the OS better instead of making different distro's It would be a huge game changer. - DickBreath, on 07/15/2009, -1/+3Rewind to mid 1980's. Mac was far ahead of the rest of the industry. Apple had recently built a file server product. While others had file server's, there was talk in Apple about building a "database server". Seems obvious today. Detractors said "but isn't that reinventing the mainframe?". Remember at this time that the microcomputer mentality was to free ourselves from mainframes.
Aren't web based applications and the newly minted term "cloud computing" basically dumb terminals. (For suitable definitions of "dumb".) Today's "dumb" terminals (eg, browsers, thin clients, etc) are *amazingly* smart compared to 30 years ago. - BalooUrsidae, on 07/16/2009, -0/+2Worked so well, Microsoft ran with the idea! ("Home" versus "Pro" versus "Ultimate" anyone?)
- lordmike, on 07/15/2009, -1/+2Not really... At least not in the sense of a VT-100... Web Browsers are more like the IBM VT3270, which weren't really "dumb" at all... they certainly did a lot of processing on their own, and only sent back the minimum necessary data back to the mainframe... just like Web-based apps do now.
- lordmike, on 07/15/2009, -2/+3You've obviously never written an enterprise application...
- Myztry, on 07/15/2009, -0/+1We are gaining options - that is all. Good for consumer. Not so good for those reliant on oversell, and you buying a meal (fries and a drink) with your burger...
- MWeather, on 07/15/2009, -1/+2What do web browsers run on? Operating systems.
- joe8pack, on 07/19/2009, -0/+1different strokes for different folks, if I want a monolithic o/s I'll buy windows.
- kstith5, on 07/21/2009, -0/+0The windows operating system and unix both can be istalled in your system.
- mobling, on 07/15/2009, -1/+1Only computers with Windows already installed will be able to upgrade to Google Chrome OS, as per Google's policy of supporting Linux well after the fact.
- MWeather, on 07/15/2009, -2/+2Which would be a total waste of time. At best, you'd get bought out.
- nextekcarl, on 07/15/2009, -3/+3We will repeat these cycles over and over. This isn't the first time through, and it won't be the last. Hopefully each time through we learn more and refine things more. That is how technology advances.
- mobling, on 07/16/2009, -0/+0I realize that. I'm just taking at dig (no pun intended) at Google. They built their entire empire based on Unix and Linux servers, and on open source software. You would think they would like to feed the hands that indeed fed them. Ahem, exactly where is the Chrome Browser for Linux?
- KibibyteBrain, on 07/15/2009, -4/+3I think these cloud-based operating systems are jumping the gun. The success of cloud computing depends on something that has not happened yet as far as I can see, which is solving scalability issues. If a could computing app requires a*N computers for N users where a is some fixed constant, then there really no point as a slightly more expensive client machine could run the app itself. So unless that's solved the only advantage of centralized computing is possibly increased convenience/functionality but the status quo is that web apps are underpowered compared to those on the desktop. And the empirical evidence looks even worse, where client applications are very popular on everything from PCs to mobile phones to access common web service. Even Google makes an App to make accessing it's services easier on the iPhone.
Just because Google has talked themselves into a Cloud OS doesn't mean its a great idea, yet, especially when they are self-interested in promoting web applications. - gilbes, on 07/15/2009, -10/+5Because Linux Distro's need more forks. It has worked so ***** well so far.
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