Comments on: Good vs. Evil?

By: Marc

Marc — Mon, 29 Aug 2005 01:35:09 +0000

Here’s another good read on the whole GooOS story…

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/3640

I think this pretty much captures the business case and the strategy for Google’s desktop takeover ambitions.

By: bit

bit — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 18:11:08 +0000

Richard: For some reason, I still don’t see how Open Source *nix systems will ever gain any kind of dominance on desktop systems any time soon. In terms of usability for the majority of the end users of the world most flavors of *nix-based OSs are simply not good enough. MacOS, Xandros, and some other proprietary versions are some exceptions. OSS still has the developers-developing-for-developers attitude that won’t help them, and while KDE and Gnome are trying their best, it’s still obviously not enough.

But if anyone was to have the guts to create “a whole new killer OS”, I would bet on it being *nix-based. (Of course, I’m still counting on http://haiku-os.org/ to pull through and show the world that there’s more to OSs than MS and *nix.)

By: raincontreras

raincontreras — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 10:01:02 +0000

Marc: Ayoko ng Flash. AJAX na lang!!!

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:40:10 +0000

Kates/St. Ellar, Xbox vs….Google PSX (ps2 + xbox hehe)

Richard, evil vs. evil….I like that hehe

Rain, nice find. WebOS, browsers, webservers…galing. tapos Flash yung UI!

By: st.ellar

st.ellar — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:21:53 +0000

nice guess. but they’ll face MS in that feild too. Cool.

i cant wait to type games.google.com on my browser.

By: Kates

Kates — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 08:40:55 +0000

Is that how easy to predict now? Remember Google likes to play guessing games with tech people. I hate to do this but I’ll have my guess anyway. The next market Google will take is gaming. That’s where the money is in the future. It is always after where the money is. Another of my wild guess.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:19:17 +0000

IMHO, GoogleOS is pure speculation, which might not be revealed for many months/years to come. People are just searching for another giant OS that has a messianic factor over Windows. But hey, we already have it: GNU/Linux. I think if Google has to build a new OS, it’ll be BSD or Linux based.

By: raincontreras

raincontreras — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:29:18 +0000

Additional read: GoogleOS? YahooOS? MozillaOS? WebOS? Its so uso to be a Google fanboy nowadays, that I'd really want to jump ship and go somewhere else.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:05:42 +0000

it might be as well as evil vs. evil? Google seems to be MSish in its expansion style. Google's turning to be the second most-hated company after MS in Silicon Valley.

By: mr nice ash

mr nice ash — Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:41:17 +0000

I have also read this article called “Revenge of the Nerds”.

It tackles more about Goole and Yahoo hiring hundreds of Superstars from the Valley including ones from Microsoft, EBAY, Amazon SUN and more.

That time, I dont have a hint that Google is planning for an OS. Well, untill now.