Google Chrome

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Fred C
> Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:21 PM
> To: RW
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Google Chrome
> 
> 
> 
> On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:21 PM, RW wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:47:34 +0200 (CEST)
> > Wojciech Puchar <wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote:
> >
> >>> For most people that's already happened, except that it's
> >>> Adobe-Flash WWW. Google's approach of open-source software, and
> >>> open-extensions, leading to new standards, sounds a lot better to
> >>> me.
> >>
> >> except it leads to google-everything. not even a bit better than
> >> microsoft-everything
> >
> > There's a lot of difference. Microsoft has always tried to undermine
> > standards because standards give its competitors a more level-playing
> > field, which is what Google needs for its webapps to compete with
> > Microsoft's desktop applications. I don't see how that's bad for
> > anyone except Microsoft.
> 
> So you mean that google is learning from the Microsoft mistakes. Or  
> maybe
> google need to get along with the standards for now, but as soon as  
> they have
> secured the market they will define the standards as they need it to  
> be for their
> benefit.
> 

Since they are defining standards that are implemented in open source
code under BSD license I don't see the problem.

You can complain the day that Adobe releases the source for Acrobat
Reader, and Flash, under BSD license, and Google closes the source for
Chrome, OK?

Ted