Any reason this O/S won’t get hit with the same mountain of patent violatlon lawsuits its big brother Android already has? And since Google provides no indemnification, the legal liabilities are automatically passed down to the manufacturers, and eventually even the end users.
It's a computer, not a smart phone or a tablet. And the Chrome OS is built on top of Linux, which has proven quite bulletproof to lawsuits by scammers and patent free-loaders, even those with secret backing from Redmond.