[geeks] Google announces Google Chrome OS

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 07:46:39PM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
> 
>> Maybe Google are 'good people' right now, but what happens if they have
>> a change of management and want to exploit all that information they
>> have on you ? A quick change of their policy and it's theirs. You might
>> think that if they do that, you'll stop using Google, but by that time
>> it will be too late ... they'll already have your information, and
>> you'll probably be hooked on Google by then anyway.
> 
> Google are good people? Search the web for information about BPL (broadband
> over powerlines) and Google's $150 millon investment in it.
> <rant>

Hasn't BPL been all but abandoned as a serious replacement for fiber,
even residential?

I think Verizon's FIOS is stomping all over anything else out there, in
the regions it is available.

--Patrick