Posts tagged open source
Releasing the Chromium OS open source project
Nov 19th
Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers. As with the Google Chrome browser, development will be done in the open from this point on. This means the code is free, accessible to anyone and open for contributions. The Chromium OS project includes our current code base, user interface experiments and some initial designs for ongoing development. This is the initial sketch and we will color it in over the course of the next year.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/releasing-chromium-os-open-source.html
The State of Open Source on Firefox's Fifth Birthday
Nov 11th
Firefox has shown us the path to open source success. The key is time. Sure five years isn’t all that long in the great scheme of things, but the browser’s story actually begins in 1998 when the Mozilla foundation was formed. The organization’s first browser was released in 2002. Using these milestones as a starting point, Firefox is actually a seven—or 11—year-old product. That’s how long it took the browser to hit 330 million. Not bad, all said, but it’s hardly an overnight success story.
