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____/ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on Thursday 04 September 2008 13:55 : \____
> On Sep 4, 1:37 am, "Phil Da Lick!"
> <phil_the_l...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> ness...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> > Great free Web applications or pricey Office applications... Hmmm...
>> > Ballmer and the rest of the Microsoft crew should be worried. Very
>> > worried.
>>
>> Do you think he regrets his "I'm gonna fucking kill google" rant and
>> wishes he'd played nice yet?
>>
>> I think this is wonderful news, at last some serious competition to one
>> of M$'s cash cows. No disrespect to OOo but they haven't got the street
>> cred that google has.
>
> Yeah, I think it's great news. The most promising I've heard in a
> long time. Obviously Chrome needs a lot more development, but it'll
> happen.
>
> I had a thought last night. SJVN makes the point that Chrome is open
> source, so anyone who wants to copy the code can (he implied). His
> point was that the innovations in Chrome will spread to other
> browers. Of course this doesn't require copying code, but it would
> help. I don't know about the licenses, however. Chrome is issued
> under a BSD license. Does that mean Firefox could incorporate some of
> the code, as long as it was reissued as open source, which of course
> it would be? I assume Microsoft could not, since IE is closed
> source. Besides, IE is intricately intertwined deep inside the OS,
> and cannot, repeat, no, no, no cannot ever be separated from it (you
> have to rock back and forth while you say that). There is some
> satisfaction in seeing Bill Gates' lies coming back to haunt IE now.
>
> Even if IE did copy Chrome's features and became just as fast and safe
> and convenient to use, that would only further Google's main goal, to
> take business away from Office. Ditto for Firefox. It's a win-win
> situation for Google.
Speaking of it being open source, some people complain that they haven't
AdBlock in Chrome. Sooner or later, some popular forks are likely to emerge
that have sophisticated blockers and plugins (maybe even XUL plugins from
Firefox) built in or added on top, just like in Flock. It's a good example of
the /user/ being given control thank to programmers who have access to the
source. Malicious antifeatures can be removed.
- --
"There's a lot of Linux out there -- much more than Microsoft generally signals
publicly -- and their customers are using it..." --Paul DeGroot, a Directions
On Microsoft analyst.
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