It'll have to be something truly special to make me switch from Firefox. I await the day when Google makes an operating system.
The article says "open source", but it doesn't say more precisely than that. Will it be a community effort a la Firefox, or will it remain purely written by Google? Google's a pretty cool company, and I'm sure they've read The Cathedral and the Bazaar; I wouldn't be surprised if they accept contributions from the public.
But what's in it for Google? If it's ad-supported, you could just take out the ad code.
EDIT: Oops, Google already *has* made an operating system. However, that's for mobile devices; what I meant was a desktop operating system.
The article says "open source", but it doesn't say more precisely than that. Will it be a community effort a la Firefox, or will it remain purely written by Google? Google's a pretty cool company, and I'm sure they've read The Cathedral and the Bazaar; I wouldn't be surprised if they accept contributions from the public.
But what's in it for Google? If it's ad-supported, you could just take out the ad code.
EDIT: Oops, Google already *has* made an operating system. However, that's for mobile devices; what I meant was a desktop operating system.