The new browser from Google, Chrome, is a very nice and seemingly fast renderer of web pages. I was very impressed by the speed performance over Firefox, long my rock for stability and speed on web browsing. However, there is not yet a linux version (not to say that one will not exist, the perception that I got was that this will eventually come to pass. The other being is the obvious put downs of Google for doing this. the FOSS community thinks that their beloved Google (of which I usually are a member of the crowd) seems to think that Google has abandoned Firefox. I would dare say that this is hogwash. Isn't it the FOSS community that hails competition? are we trying to grow a new monopolistic giant in Firefox, that is more than O.K. just for the fact that its code is open and free? I don't think this is the right attitude to take here. Secondly, The people that tout the advantages of Google and how they are stealing the desktop away from Microsoft through Software as a Service. I have to take a moment to point out the obvious flaws with this: Software as a Service may be nice for some situations, but for an at-home user this can be a problem. Some people, even in this advanced age of all powerful technology, do not have the internet or lack the fantastic (or seemingly so) speed of a broadband internet connection. Dialup users and people who cannot afford access (or simply choose not to access) the internet will never be able to access the kind of model that these people tout. I also point to a past perceived paradigm shift to Java-everything was going to go to Java, and Java was going to permeate the very being of every computer regardless of platform for the simple fact that it was platform independent. While Java is quite popular for web-based applications and even some that are not, I would point out that several years hence, the foresight of those who peddled this theory were wrong. Operating Systems will never die; they will be built upon though. The demise of Windows must come through a diversification of the market in Operating Systems. I look to MacOS (Should Apple ever get their head out of their behind and see that other people need to be able to use their OS on hardware other than that made by Apple) and Linux/BSD/Other free unix. The time is near and the future bright for all these prospects if their impediments could only melt away.
By the way, Good Luck Google with your new venture.
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