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Yet another money saving aspect of Open Source Software for companies results from the fact that by open-sourcing their software, many developers (hobbyists but also professionals) work with its code and get familiar with it. So the numer of people that know the specific software code rises. Now, if any company that uses OSS needs to customize or evolve this software it don't depend on just a few and therefore very expensive experts but can choose from a lage pool of OSS enthusiasts. And these people are already acquainted with this software and don't need any time (=money) to get familiar with the code base . However this decreases software development costs and therefore facilitates the software development as such.

I was curious about the file system of the upcoming Google Chrome OS. As I haven't found this info anywhere on the chromium.org site (ok, Chrome OS was released only just 30min ago :). So I've pulled the source and scrolled through... In the source tree I've found ext2* and ext3* files that indicate that it uses either ext3 only because the ext3 file system is basically the journaled version of ext2 or it uses both ext3 (for local storage) and ext2 (for the static parts). However there were no ext4 files. For those of you not familiar with Linux — all these are Linux file systems .