Well, I have to agree with you with most of the post. but I quoted this line, because Google and Mozilla are not actual enemies, even with the last announcements. I think that support an open-source project can be more productive (to you) than start you own open-source project. Making their all good ideas true, they’ll be able to consume the good ideas which are already done by the open-source world, and thus improving their own product. But what I don’t understand are the real intentions behind Chrome, which is open-source too. Two promising projects, both on the same line, both open-source. I would understand more if it were something like Picasa.

I’ve heard that Chrome has been “stealing” more IE users than Firefox have done. And this could be an approach to users who aren’t familiar with other browsers than Mifrosoft’s.

The other thing I think (more interesting) is that Google wants complete control of Mozilla, and Chrome was a simply power demonstration. No big announcements, just releasing and it has been increasing in number of users. At least, they are proposing a tighter union between Google Labs and Mozilla Labs, to create the Googlezilla (or Moogle) web platform.

Just thinking.
Sorry for my bad English. Brasileiro.