Open source technologies can be traced back to the late 1970s when Richard Stallman, a former programmer at MIT A1 Laboratories, launched the GNU Project and Free Software Foundation.

The ultimate goal of the GNU project was to produce a free operating system. Since then there has been some significant GNU projects such as Apache (a www Server), Perl (interpreted program language) Mozilla (a www browser) and Linux (an open source operating system supported by companies such as Redhat Corporation).

Google chrome is a new browser released by google.

Their browser is a huge leap forwards for web browsers, speeding up to 400% faster and hardware usage has decreased and security has increased and useability has been increased.

The browser can be downloaded from the internet and is quite small, link here.

What’s amazing about this release is that google has released their browser FREE (OpenSource)
They are showing their source code to anyone who wants to look under the hood.