From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 06:42:15 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 DD926106566C for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:42:15 +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 C645A8FC19 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 06:42:15 +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 1Kb8Xn-0007Ym-57; Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:42:15 -0700 X-Gpg-Fingerprint: A906 101E 2CCD BB18 D7BD 09AE E7EA 02EC 3B48 7EE9 From: Fred C To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: X-Gpg-Url: http://fred.velvnet.com/gnupg/3B487EE9.asc X-Priority: 3 (Normal) References: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v926) Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:42:12 -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: Ted Mittelstaedt 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 06:42:15 -0000 On Sep 3, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > >> -----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? I am not saying what they are doing is not good for the community. Like everyone here I thing that's great. Not only because it's one more pice of freesoftware. Also because that will force web developers to use standards instead of specificities only available on IE. I am just saying that what they are doing is for their own good and not for the good of mankind. Their business model doesn't rely on software ownership but on data mining. -fred-