So far, I think none of Google's actions contradicted my personal opinion on their intentions with Chrome. I still believe their main objective is to force the use of web standards by evenly distributing the browser marketing between Gecko, WebKit and... whatever IE's engine is called. From this point of view, it makes sense that they are still funding Mozilla and chose an engine supported by default on Macs.

And no, they don't want standardization because of some altruistic ideals. It's just easier to develop web applications that way. And getting rid of the anomaly called IE6, which behaves differently from 7 and 8 to the point of being considered a different engine, is a very logical next step.

Precisely because Gimp is open source that someone was able to tweak its GUI and make GimpShop. That's qbzzt's point.

Mentions Australia and the Simpsons rule. Damn, wikipedians are fast. My bad.

...from Miller, explaining why he spent years refusing deals for filming Sin City, claming he was afraid that the director wouldn't be faithful to the comic book's spirit (pun not intended), and now is perfectly confortable in imposing his own view of The Spirit over Eisner's.

I'm not questioning here if the movie will be good or not. I'm just wondering if he ever tried to explain why he's not being completely hypocritical.

Indeed...

Seriously speaking, though, the popularity of flash games has also much to do with the fact that they're right there, easy to access. You receive an e-mail from a friend with a link to a new one, click it and can immediately start playing.

The current video-games now have online content and easy network access, but you still have to change medias and spend time and money. That makes a lot of difference.