Google should aqquire Linux to Combine Chrome OS as one

[Paulo Bollosa]

I hope you should aqquire Linux and replace Chrome OS to have you an official OS exclusively for PCs' and combine it with all the Features and Design of Chrome OS to become more powerfull than ever, and with also having all the features and design of latest Android and sharing its same code in each other. And I hope Chrome Web Browser would be the official web browser for Linux if you aqquire Linux and also for Android. Please!!!!! Thanks...

[Ottavio Caruso]

On 3 November 2012 08:47, Paulo Bollosa <bollos...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope you should aqquire Linux and replace Chrome OS to have you an
> official OS exclusively for PCs

And where do you "aqquire" this Linux? On Ebay?

[Mike Frysinger]

please read the documentation at http://dev.chromium.org/ and you'll see that ChromeOS is already using Linux.

also, it is literally impossible to acquire Linux in the corporate sense as no one owns it.

as for Android, Chrome is already the official browser on newer releases.

-mike

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Paulo Bollosa <bollos...@gmail.com> wrote:

I hope you should aqquire Linux and replace Chrome OS to have you an official OS exclusively for PCs' and combine it with all the Features and Design of Chrome OS to become more powerfull than ever, and with also having all the features and design of latest Android and sharing its same code in each other. And I hope Chrome Web Browser would be the official web browser for Linux if you aqquire Linux and also for Android. Please!!!!! Thanks...

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[Steve Pirk]

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[Ottavio Caruso]

On 3 November 2012 17:03, Mike Frysinger <vap...@chromium.org> wrote:
> also, it is literally impossible to acquire Linux in the corporate sense as
> no one owns it.

And if I wanted to be picky, the Linux kernel belongs to all the
developers who have contributed to it, but it's the GPL that makes it
worthless to buy something which is open source. A few years ago
somebody estimated the value of the Linux kernel in a few million
dollars.

Google Inc would have no trouble spending that figure but even if it
was possible I wish Google didn't do it.

[Steve Pirk]

A ton of people that work at Google are developers that contribute some of that code. No one would want to own Linux, least of all Google, so no worries there. (Well, uSoft might want to own it... hahahaha)

-- steve

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006...@yahoo.com> wrote:

On 3 November 2012 17:03, Mike Frysinger <vap...@chromium.org> wrote:
> also, it is literally impossible to acquire Linux in the corporate sense as
> no one owns it.

And if I wanted to be picky, the Linux kernel belongs to all the
developers who have contributed to it, but it's the GPL that makes it
worthless to buy something which is open source.

not entirely true.  if you relicensed it to e.g. BSD, a lot of companies would pay for that access.

Google Inc would have no trouble spending that figure but even if it
was possible I wish Google didn't do it.

it isn't a money thing.  I'd bet there is a non-insignificant number of people who would stick to their beliefs to keep it open.

also, once a release has been made with GPL, that last version could be forked and kept open by someone else forever.

-mike

[Luis Larghi]

What Google really should do is merge Chrome OS with Android, in the sense that when you put your Android phone on a dock station connected to a screen, mouse and keyboard, the GUI change to the Chrome OS side, having your notifications popping out on a corner of the screen, just like Ubuntu is doing.

That would be AWESOME!!!

[waldemar robert Bedzinski]

2012/11/6 Luis Larghi <windi...@gmail.com>

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[vorcigernix]

I think that there almost everyone wants to join chrome and android ecosystems. It is a long run I guess, but will bet that there is someone working on this in Google.