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2009-08-10T13:39:45.972+05:30

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Goood one Sanjiva... further proof that you should...

2009-08-01T09:02:58.325+05:30

Goood one Sanjiva... further proof that you should stick to topics that you're good at and stay away from the lame attempts at flag waving and rabble rousing

Looks like Google has chosen a FreeNX knock-off for the X replacement/future. Not surprising; NX had the right characteristics!

@Bud: IMO the issue is not technical. Just look at...

2009-07-12T09:47:40.201+05:30

@Bud: IMO the issue is not technical. Just look at the level of interest they've generated with Android and with Wave - Google has enough "cool cred" with developers to attract people.

You're right that they probably won't attract people who want to work on the core but rather people who want to build cool apps and make money out of the stuff. Well that's exactly what Google wants - to be in control of the platform and let others build on it. Their control comes from owning the direction of the platform and the online services that the platform will be innately tied to.

While I agree with @Eric that Google is a non-player in the OS and browser spaces, they are clearly the monopolist in the online services space. This OS and the entire Google strategy is about making computing more and more dependent on online services.

I am not saying that that's a bad thing - its the new mainframe world and it is so convenient for users (hence my comments about stateless computing).

It would be much better for all of us if the online services that Google is going to tie the Gnetbook to were "open services". The only one who can give a credible set of alternative services today is Microsoft .. and there's basically zero probability that Google will ever open up the box to support both. Unless (eventually) DoJ has to take it up as a monopoly issue.

Sanjiva - thanks for a great perspective on the Go...

2009-07-09T21:47:30.364+05:30

Sanjiva - thanks for a great perspective on the Google OS project. I agree it's a good time to rethink computing architectures because of commodity "scale out" hardware systems and cloud/virtualization techniques for managing data.

I want to comment on one thing you said though. About Google getting a pass on the "integrated browser with OS issue." The difference is Microsoft already had a dominant market share of the OS when they tried to tie the browser to it. Google has very little browser share, never mind OS share...

I'm very skeptical on Google's ability to ...

2009-07-09T15:44:35.449+05:30

I'm very skeptical on Google's ability to pull this one off. There is no doubt that cloud computing is the next battle ground and and everyone has warmed up to it, but I don't see the appeal of Google's OS over any other good Linux distro.

Whats so special about google OS over any other Linux distro. The announce was pure marketing talk and lacked any substance. I seriously doubt google will write an Xorg replacement and hope to maintain it. That would mean tons of current gtk/qt apps will break to say the least. Sure they don't care as long as the browser works but IMHO thats crippleware.

But the main reason why I think this won't succeed is because IMHO google is not so good at getting FOSS developers to work for them. They may have code Open but the way they work seems closed enough. I can't think of one Google project that excited a lot of FOSS developers to contribute to it. At the end, I'm not sure if google is geared up to even accept patches. They need a social change before they can make this successful.

But I'm glad google is doing this as its a stepping stone to tapping the OEMs. Hopefully Canonical or someone else with better ties to the FOSS community can pick up the ball and roll with it.