Does Chrome fracture Linux?
The forking discussion in the Linux community will heat up once the Chrome OS Linux distribution rounds into focus. Some will recall that Google built its own Linux-based machines for its data center infrastructure and was roundly criticized for not contributing code changes back to the community. Google doesn’t want to slip here. As part of the Chrome announcement it said: “We have a lot of work to do, and we’re definitely going to need a lot of help from the open source community to accomplish this vision.” The early word from the Linux Foundation is this: “We are supportive of using community-developed and community-supported upstream components. We think it’s best for consumers and the community but also the vendors.
The forking discussion in the Linux community will heat up once the Chrome OS Linux distribution rounds into focus. Some will recall that Google built its own Linux-based machines for its data center infrastructure and was roundly criticized for not contributing code changes back to the community. Google doesn’t want to slip here. As part of the Chrome announcement it said: “We have a lot of work to do, and we’re definitely going to need a lot of help from the open source community to accomplish this vision.” The early word from the Linux Foundation is this: “We are supportive of using community-developed and community-supported upstream components.
