I remember Eric saying that the one thing the american people should be knowledgeable of is that the US government issues thousands of subpeonas a day for our private information to google.
That being said I also remembering that google holds the patent for the shipping container data center.
This is aimed at netbooks initially. If the goal is to dethrone microsoft hard core linux users and mad scientist types may not find much thats appealing at first. This will target our teens first making the social aspect of the internet that much easier to get to. What is facebook worth again? Netbooks are cheap and easily replaced.
Unless google pulls an apple and gets drm content providers involved I see a group of individuals recognizing open source code and running with it. OS X is not unix as we know it but the hackintosh community has proven their point. While this may not be linux as we know it I think google is cleaver enough to throw in features like free googl voice (which is awesome btw), free online, apps, and enough free storege to attract a few people who are frustrated with the mainstream linux getting heavier and heavier.
I have a feeling that a lot of those "summer of code" projects that google hosts will develop this platform faster than anything we have seen. I see embedded google in mall kiosks in 5 years. Once it hits 20 percent market share the business community will take notice and start to migrate. If our kids (those who have them) scream loud enough, for these google netbooks, I see this working. Especially if google markets it a community based os. They will learn from the OLPC and possibly put it to shame making the world take notice.
Personally I hope it happens and I plan on supporting it. I have been in disagreement with freedesktop.org for years.
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