Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Q5sys]

So I dont know if anyone had read this... but here is where the saga starts:

ChromeBook Inventor
The individual did work at google, and Google was granted a patent based on some of his work.

So thats where the story starts... But then enters a ton of Google Employees who want to get their word in.

I dont know how long that thread will get... so I'll go ahead and post two parts I think are the most interesting...


it continues...

[puppyluvr]

Hello,
LOL, I hit "publish", then saw your post..

[greengeek]

Clearly "Guppy" is short for "GooglePuppy". Shows the genesis of ChromeOS, and how visionary Barry is.

I still have a copy of googleOS - I must dig it out and give it another whirl. I seem to remember feeling it was so much less capable than Puppy unless you had a high speed umbilical tying you to a good broadband link. Puppy was faster and could do things offline to...

[amigo]

Uh, excuse me, but BK did not invent the LiveCD, running from RAM, etc. Those ideas and techniques were around long before puppy was begun. Also, all the fuss above about a web-based or cloud-based OS is ridiculous -a bunch of desktop shortcuts which open web-pages does not constitute a web-based or cloud-based OS.

[greengeek]

So what makes googleOS and chromeOS different to others then? Are they just something like terminal server sessions over internet?

[nooby]

But Google OS is not same as Jeff's Guppy is it?
AFAIK they named it ChromeOS and not Google OS
But Google OS was not guppy unless Jeff used that name
somewhere? Did he? we should have heard about Guppy
on our forum if it was a puppy even if stripped down?

Or did he manage to keep that secred up to 2013?

Here is his patent http://www.google.com/patents/US8239662
quote
A system for providing an operating system over a network to a local device is provided. The system includes a base image server, a preferences image server and an image loader. The system may also include a boot loader. A method for providing an operating system over a network to a local device is also provided. The method includes receiving a request for an operating system. The method further includes transmitting to a local device remotely stored base and preferences images that are configured for combination into a combined image. The method may also include the synchronizing the combined image with a cached version of an operating system on the local device.
Inventor: Jeffrey Nelson
/quote

AFAIK GoogleOs is something entirely other than Guppy.
if I am wrong then I do apology

[NeroVance]

It will be interesting to see where this all ends.

The patent I think may relate to something I think either a puplet or early puppy was able to do, involving booting over PXE. But that doesn't likely mean they stole it, as it has existed probably before and after Puppy.

Guppy may have been an internal distro for Google folk, but who knows. We'd need to hunt around the filesystem of the current google linux offerings, and their earlier versions which there is the possibility of containing puppy documentation that may have been purged later on.

However, Puppy is free software, hence other than maybe a few things, Google can do this. I think...

[Q5sys]

[NeroVance]

[amigo]

And what is Puppy 'based' off of?

[greengeek]

[don570]

Barry Kauler has some legal rights

[darkcity]

What you quoted is trademark. They protect Barry's right to the Puppy name and logo. That is someone else couldn't start calling an OS Puppy, or make derivative and claim it was Puppy OS.

It doesn't lay claim to any technology used in Puppy - which is covered by a GPL license. Means anyone and use and modify the technology, but not claim they invented it.

[Q5sys]

[rokytnji]