[dundee] Be wary of Chrome's EULA (Was Re: Google browser...and technical presentation)

[Rick Moynihan]

Be wary of Chrome's EULA, which seems to give them an open license to
invade your privacy and use content they acquire (though I'm sure in
practice they'll exercise some caution). Here's the passage:

"By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a
perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive
license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly
perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit,
post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the
sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the
services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the
additional terms of those services."

In using Chrome you grant Google these and additional rights which you
can read about here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10030522-2.html

If you like Chrome and care about such things then you'll be able to
circumvent the EULA by downloading the BSD licensed code and compiling
and building it yourself.  The EULA can only be applied to the binary
(and services) that Google provide.

Alternatively you could wait for someone else to do this and
distribute a EULA free binary.

R.

2008/9/3 azmodie <azmodie at gmail.com>:
> Looks interesting. i love the style and relative simplicity of the comic
> strip.
> Unfortunately there is no linux development build at the moment it although
> there does look like a mac development is in the svn.
> ( http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-os-x )
> Officialy : Note: There is no working Chromium-based browser on Linux.
> Although many Chromium submodules build under Linux and a few unit tests
> pass, all that runs is a command-line "all tests pass" executable.
> more info on linux build :
> ( http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/build-instructions-linux )
> one thing of note they are trying to build it with as few prerequsites as
> possable although there only internel development machines all run Ubuntu
> 8.0 (Hardy).
> azmodie
> --
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> controlling everything that is Umbrella.
> A combination of Microsoft and the US Military. At some level there is a
> board of directors who meet once a
> month and decide all of our fates."
> -- Jeremy Bolt - Producer - Resident Evil : Apocalypse
>
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