I did check out Hyperspace quite some time back when they were looking for developers to extend it further. It seems to be a remix of the Xen hypervisor, though heavily modified and possibly derived from a Citrix license. The idea is to provide what Borland managed to do with Sidekick and it isn't a product that is meant to just sit in the BIOS. Phoenix's Download page clearly shows that Hyperspace is an individual software product that can be bought. I'd certainly love to have a Sidekick like option today and an in-built paravirtualization module to switch between different kernels or Operating Systems without a reboot. This seems promising, although consumer adoption will probably be kicked in through OEMs more than Software Box sales.

What remains to be patented is a method for granting patents, such as it is now. We could then charge the USPTO for each patent granted or better still deny them the rights. Gawsh!!

Why would Google put all the effort and keep their browser running on Windows with their own linux port being delayed? I have a pet theory to that. Google did in fact sponsor adoption of firefox and provided lots of plugins. Many of us *know* firefox can be a resource hog and also slower at rendering than many, we have few HTML rendering engines that can render most content. I believe that Google is abstaining from releasing a competitor to firefox on Linux platforms for some reason. The "Chrome" and "Chromium" stories are going to stay that way for a while until they have good reasoning to go native. They would still something similar to what they have done with Picasa (integrated wineserver approach.) It has worked before. So Chrome/Linux will be very similar to Chromium.

Geez, I thought we should be reading it on the spanking new $12M "controlled" In2ernet ...Guess /.ers aren't invited there.