Google Chrome introduction: free software development depicted right

Google went an unusual way to tell the world about their new free software project: Google Chrome (the page might not open correctly for a while, Google didn’t promise exact date yet). Project announcement came in as dead tree comics, delivered via snail mail to Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped fame. Philipp scanned the comics and published it.

These comics series are brilliant work of Scott McCloud and deserve to be enjoyed by themselves even if you’re technology hater. However, the thing I want to focus here isn’t what shiny future to web hitchhikers would reflect on Google Chrome’s surface. I’m sure this combination of new JavaScript engine and Webkit with operating systems’ architecture applied to a browser life would make our experience less crushable. I want to focus on a different aspect of this announcement…