Eric Schmidt resisted the development of Google’s computer operating system — what later would be named the Chrome OS — for the first six years after he joined the company as chief executive in 2001… Over Mr Schmidt’s objections Google co-founders… hired developers who had worked on Mozilla’s Firefox browser and created an early version of the Chrome browser. “It was so good, they forced me to change my mind,” Mr Schmidt told reporters at the annual Sun Valley confab of media and technology moguls. [FT]