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I'm surprised Google with all its resources and technology could not come up with its own operating system from scratch instead on basing it on Linux.
Why would they do that?
That being said, why do they even need "crippled" Chrome OS when there are many mini Linux distros that already fulfill this purpose? I'm guessing because of the branding, but that makes them more like Apple.
That depends on the license. Apple used FreeBSD because license allowed them to mix open source with proprietary code and keep it all a secret.
As far as I can tell, Google released everything they made under the open source license. Plus Google seems to be giving OS away to protect it's search business model from being restricted at user device level. They are not really selling OS and devices. They are selling their search and internet apps and protecting those from being restricted by Browser makers, OS makers and device makers.
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