From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 06:20:56 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992D61065676 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:20:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fred@bsdhost.net) Received: from dos.kaslist.com (dos.kaslist.com [66.160.134.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E91A8FC25 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:20:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fred@bsdhost.net) Received: from dos.kaslist.com [66.160.134.9] by dos.kaslist.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Kb8D9-0006vS-Iv; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:20:55 -0700 X-Gpg-Fingerprint: A906 101E 2CCD BB18 D7BD 09AE E7EA 02EC 3B48 7EE9 From: Fred C To: RW In-Reply-To: <20080904012138.4ff77804@gumby.homeunix.com.> X-Gpg-Url: http://fred.velvnet.com/gnupg/3B487EE9.asc References: <57057966651240527470195062000340979511-Webmail2@me.com> <26682.8228872784$1220442858@news.gmane.org> <20080903135750.F2188@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080903151335.0454e929@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080904004712.R1670@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080904012138.4ff77804@gumby.homeunix.com.> Message-Id: <08472905-EBEC-403D-9D35-5E8EA6BA269B@bsdhost.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:20:34 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.926) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:20:56 -0000 On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:21 PM, RW wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 00:47:34 +0200 (CEST) > Wojciech Puchar 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-