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RE: Competition
By DopeFishhh on 7/9/2009 10:41:37 AM , Rating: 2
OK i should probably have qualified that as desktop commercialization. But really that's what we are talking about isn't it?

There are other ways around charging for Linux specifically, some have made their money from selling expertise, others the extra software, and apple ties it to their hardware. Google would have more than enough money to be able to get a commercial version going anyway.

The other part to Google is that its not entirely a straight forward business, they've repeatedly demonstrated decisions that aren't purely oriented around profits. Frequently they do things just to see what becomes of it, their massive piles of cash ensure that they can absorb it if it doesn't turn out quite as well as they thought.

Heck knowing the culture of the Google development teams it's probably one of their whacky ideas that started something like "HEY GUYS! lets make our own OS!"


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