From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 06:27:12 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 B2E79106567B for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:27:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 763078FC1E for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:27:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from TEDSDSK (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id m846R0ag068325; Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:27:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Fred C" , "RW" Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:27:59 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1933 In-Reply-To: <08472905-EBEC-403D-9D35-5E8EA6BA269B@bsdhost.net> Importance: Normal X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]); Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:27:01 -0700 (PDT) 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 06:27:12 -0000 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Fred C > Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:21 PM > To: RW > Cc: freebsd-questions@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 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