Stallman: Chrome OS is ‘careless computing’
Posted by Rahmi Lale | Filed under Computer, Linux, Online tools, Open source
December 14, 2010 11:07 AM PST
by Tom Krazit
Richard Stallman, one of the computer industry’s most outspoken defenders of open software, doesn’t like Chrome OS.
Stallman, founder of the Free Software Foundation, continued to speak out against the notion of cloud computing today, telling The Guardian that the notion of Chrome OS’ cloud model might better be described as “careless computing” than as cloud computing. Chrome OS is loosely based on a project near and dear to Stallman’s heart–GNU/Linux–but “it is delivered without the usual applications, and rigged up to impede and discourage installing applications,” he said.
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