Chromium OS source released
Chromium OS source released
Posted Nov 20, 2009 22:13 UTC (Fri) by dlang (guest, #313)In reply to: Chromium OS source released by adamgundy
Parent article: Chromium OS source released
simple, they don't want to loose compatibility with anything else they may want to put on there, and with all the different hardware that X supports.
if they were only looking at one product with a fixed list of software, what you are suggesting _may_ work, but if you are wanting to support more software, or more hardware, and support new versions of everything for years you don't want to lock yourself down like that