There is absolutely nothing stopping MS from copy and pasting huge chunks of chromium into IE tomorrow. That was not the case with activex.
Like others have said, this article is trolling us.
Chrome may have feature and marketshare parallels to IE6, but it will never be IE6. IE6 was weilded in anger. Chrome is open source, which significantly limits Google's ability to use it in a similar fashion. Not to mention, Google isn't out to kill the web in the way that Microsoft was.
"Great stuff, faster Web interactions, but let's not forget that that universal access using any software is why the Web took off in the first place." Has he any had experiences where a site served only SPDY clients?
This article is immensely ignorant, it basically states that no browser should have capabilities that other browsers lack, if that would be the case than we would end up in a deadlock, because everyone would wait for everyone.
Emerging standards need to be tried in the open, Google is doing the right thing, they are trying SPDY with real world web apps and real world customers so that it will mature by the time other browsers implement it and we won't be stuck with implementations that suck.