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Except that Chromium OS is open source so you or the community can patch it if such a thing were to happen.

"You can do it yourself" is not what enterprise IT people want to hear either.

I predict that somebody will ship chrome notebooks to corporations that have the 'jailbreak button' removed.

Will Google allow you to install a patched version on a native Chrome OS notebook? It seems like some of the value lies in the hardware/software integration, and those machines are going to ship with locked-down bootloaders.

Otherwise, I agree that the community aspect does differentiate it from past legacy products like Win2K.

> Will Google allow you to install a patched version on a native Chrome OS notebook?

The answer is an unqualified yes. According to Google, jailbreak mode is a feature of Chrome OS hardware. On the Cr-48, it requires flipping a small switch under the battery.

If it's a hardware feature, who knows what the other hardware vendors will do with that?

You don't have to buy that hardware. The point is Google is all in favor of you having control.

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