Google is starting to respond to questions about the just announced Chrome operating system . In a short FAQ today they talked about cost and initial partners. First of all, the software will be free, which was an easy assumption to make since it will be open source. Like Android, Google will not charge users or device manufacturers to use the Chrome OS. Yesterday Google said they were already working with device manufacturers to roll out Chrome OS devices late next year. Today they announced at least some of those partners: Acer , Adobe , ASUS , Freescale , Hewlett-Packard , Lenovo , Qualcomm , Texas Instruments .