On-line Applications "Just Work"; Why Worry About the Freedom of the Licence? | Linux Today

On-line Applications “Just Work”; Why Worry About the Freedom of the Licence?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 2, 2008

[ Thanks to steve
hill
for this link. ]

“So this “the browser is the computer” thing: what’s
that about then? If the browser is to become the interface through
which we access everything — and it already has in some
quarters — what will this browser run on? So far I’ve not
seen anybody suggest that the browser would run on anything other
than an operating system of some kind.”


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