Re: [Fsuk-manchester] google plan new OS?

[Simon Ward]

On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 09:01:00PM +0100, Tim Dobson wrote:
> On a technical level, the big questions are:
>
> * will it use x11 (if not, for us, it's probably pointless)
> * will it base itself on a well known packaging system
> * will it radically change GNU/Linux permissions stuff (a la linspire  
> which ran the UI as root)
…
> I'm worried about proliferation on non-standard ways of doing things,  
> whether they are free software or not.

This doesn’t really matter.  If we aren’t able to stray from “standards”
it becomes very hard to be innovative.  What matters is that the APIs,
formats, protocols, etc that differ from existing standards are all
documented and freely available.

Simon
-- 
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall

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