I've been thinking about my friend and colleague Steve Levy's awesome Wired piece on the making of Google's new browser and realized the following: Chrome is the ultimate statement about the shortcomings of the open source movement.
Yes, I know that Google is open sourcing the development of Chrome and yes, I know that Google has run its architecture on Linux from its founding. But read the piece. The reason Google built Chrome was because one browser - IE - is controlled by enemy Microsoft and the other, Firefox, is a hugely successful open source project. In both cases that means that while the future of Google's business depends on the browser, it has no control over either piece of software. Google's approach to business is looking more and more like Apple's every day, wouldn't you say? Not that there is anything wrong with that ...........
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