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Harsh Words From Google On Linux Development
jeevesbond writes "The alpha version of Google Chrome is now available for GNU/Linux. Google Chrome developer and former Firefox lead Ben Goodger has some problems with the platform though. His complaints range from the lack of a standardised UI toolkit, inconsistencies across applications, the lack of a unified and comprehensive HIG, to GTK not being a very compelling toolkit. With Adobe getting twitchy about the glibc fork and previously describing the various audio systems as welcome to the jungle, is it time to concentrate on consolidation and standardisation in GNU/Linux in general, and the desktop in particular?"
Seriously Google how hard can it be? Just use GTK, its light, useful and even a weekend coder can use it.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Linux does not exist for Google's pleasure and ease.
They seem to be taking arrogance lessons from Microsoft.
Probably the result of all those ex-microsofties they hire.
You are absolutely right. You sum up all the reasons why I gave up on linux after ten years and switched to the Mac. Finally a consistent environment and no hours of fiddling to get simple things working. I keep following the Linux world and now have Ubuntu in a virtual machine, and from what I see I guess indeed nothing will be done about Google's complaints.
O, and concerning your sig: I think piracy is not the way to change the attitude and practices RIAA. If you pirate music, movies, and whatever you will only help in getting more artists on the street and more crapware to be released, because there will be no money for good stuff. So stop pirating and try to come up with another, more sensible, solution!
No watch me get modded to oblivion.
-- Cheers!
It never ceases to amaze me that "I use a Mac" is an automatic +1, insightful. If anything, that's proof that Mac fans are morons.
lol, I love the smell of wishful thinking in the morning. The peninsular war was the sudden and sneaky invasion of a nation by a powerful empire, which was then defended by not only the nation itself but its allies, one of which was the British empire. Yeah, that's a bit far off the desktop OS situation.
The desktop OS market is a market. You can make OSes that you control, but you can't control the market. You can conquer it, but the Microsoft empire got about 90% of it occupied already, and Apple about 9%. The barbarian Linux hordes have about 1% of it, and it's going to be very tough to improve it significantly, because Microsoft and Apple have a well guarded territory, because Microsoft and Apple have built their own OS pretty much from the ground up when all the Linux guys can do is cobble a bunch of projects together, their OSes are arguably easily superior to the Linux distros, and finally both Microsoft and Apple are huge fucking companies that are worth hundreds of billions and employ shitloads of the best professionals out there, and let's just say they have a bit more leverage to get their OS on average Joe's computer than you do.
So tell me, how is an anarchic horde made mostly of semi-competent hobbyists supposed to take on these giants? They can't. Hear hear, for I'm gonna tell you the explanation and outcome for the current Linux situation : the new barbarians arrived on the land of the desktop OS, make a few settlements, claim some very small territory, the end. You know why? Because as much as you guys would like to wage a war on the big guys, you've already reached your peak, the point of equilibrium when your OS can only be so good compared to the concurrence given how many resources you have versus how many they have, and how you can only be so loud when the big guys are much louder. This situation is just bound to slowly peak, and remain stable. Red Hat, Ubuntu, they can't do anything about it, because in reality they're actually pretty small, they only have the power to make distros, not full OSes, let alone great OSes. Your only hope is that the Microsoft empire crumbles by itself, but even then, you'd rather see a big player pop out of the blue into this market than the barbarian hordes claim it. Cause Linux isn't even prepared to have significantly more marketshare than it does.
You just got troll'd!