Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:20:34 -0700 From: Fred C <fred@bsdhost.net> To: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome Message-ID: <08472905-EBEC-403D-9D35-5E8EA6BA269B@bsdhost.net> In-Reply-To: <20080904012138.4ff77804@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <da7069940809021338s686fc5a0pbf226363ec8f6427@mail.gmail.com> <57057966651240527470195062000340979511-Webmail2@me.com> <26682.8228872784$1220442858@news.gmane.org> <g9ltvn$m0m$1@ger.gmane.org> <20080903135750.F2188@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080903151335.0454e929@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080904004712.R1670@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080904012138.4ff77804@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:21 PM, RW wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:47:34 +0200 (CEST) > Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@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. -fred-
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