[PLUG] New Google Employees Not Allowed on Windows

[Michael Moore]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Fred James <fredjame at fredjame.cnc.net> wrote:
>
> Is anyone using Chromium?  Thoughts?  Well, one from me ... nothing is
> store on your computer ... so your computer becomes a thin client,
> right?  So they glossed over where stuff is stored in the videos, but
> the answer is, of course, on someone else's computer, right?  You comfy
> with that?  All kind of warm and fuzzy?  I'd be very interested in your
> thoughts/feelings (Disclaimer:  I am in no way associated with MS or G,
> of Apple for that matter, and I don't make a living from any of these,
> or even from Linux/Unix (anymore).)

I don't see much point to Chrome/Chromium unless it brings along with
it different, more flexible hardware (and I don't know what that might
look like) or more-or-less the same hardware available now (like
netbooks) at considerably reduced prices.  I don't see the point of
installing Chromium on an existing computer, since I don't see the
point of limiting the functionality of existing hardware.  If you have
a netbook with a 160gb hard drive, why would you install an operating
system on it that is designed not to take advantage of that?  If, on
the other hand, newfangled netbooks or pad-like devices with
solid-state drives hit the retail market for $50 preloaded with
Chromium, then I might be interested.

You can pretty much do everything that Chromium promises now, if you
want to, whatever OS you're using.  So the only benefit to an OS that
is limited to what Chromium promises is that somehow it will be a
better value proposition for the consumer.  I'm not sure even Google
can pull that off.

Michael M.