1. [OT] Google Chrome Now Available!
- Posted by euphoric (admin) Sep 02, 2008
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I'm posting using Google's new Chrome browser. Seems sleek and nimble so far!
2. Re: [OT] Google Chrome Now Available!
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Sep 02, 2008
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- Last edited Sep 03, 2008
No Linux version, yet. 
(hopefully)
-Greg
3. Re: [OT] Google Chrome Now Available!
- Posted by gshingles Sep 03, 2008
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No Linux version, yet.
(hopefully)
-Greg
I'm using Chrome now (Windows). I would be surprised if it doesn't become very cross platform, it's pretty innovative.
Gary
4. Re: [OT] Google Chrome Now Available!
- Posted by Ken_Rhodes Sep 03, 2008
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Be sure to read Chrome's fine print: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10030522-2.html
5. Re: [OT] Google Chrome Now Available!
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Sep 03, 2008
- 1194 views
Be sure to read Chrome's fine print: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10030522-2.html
"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."
Typical google. They are a good tool but they are getting too big and gaining to much power, IMHO, and Chrome is just another means to accomplish it
Here's one users comment on the above page:
"I'm in love with the sudden degree of suspicion people are starting to take with Google. It's not without reason since everything they do is in the interest in harvesting data but at one time people were ready to declare Google the second coming, all things to all markets and now they're becoming that shadowy organization with the same vibe that Microsoft had in the late 90's."
Jeremy
6. Re: [OT] Google Chrome Now Available!
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Sep 03, 2008
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Be sure to read Chrome's fine print: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10030522-2.html
"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."
Yes, this is scary. It means, I think, that if you use Chrome to display some company-internally-secret information from an internal webserver, Google has the right to publish anywhere the damn well like.
7. Re: [OT] Google Chrome Now Available!
- Posted by euphoric (admin) Sep 03, 2008
- 1200 views
- Last edited Sep 04, 2008
Don't worry, you can trust Google. 
8. Re: [OT] Google Chrome Now Available!
- Posted by jeremy (admin) Sep 03, 2008
- 1185 views
- Last edited Sep 04, 2008
Don't worry, you can trust Google.
Yeah: "That language comes from Google's universal terms of service, the company said."
Jeremy
9. Re: [OT] Google Chrome Now Available!
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Sep 03, 2008
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- Last edited Sep 04, 2008
Don't worry, you can trust Google.
Yeah: "That language comes from Google's universal terms of service, the company said."
It seems pretty obvious that someone got lazy and grabbed the boiler plate TOS. It makes some sense for other apps they put out, since they are often tied directly to various google services. I suspect that they'll correct it pretty soon.
It doesn't even make sense. "The services?" It's a browser. Unless the intertubes are now all running on the dark fiber they bought a few years back, and nobody told us...
Matt
10. Re: [OT] Google Chrome Now Available!
- Posted by DerekParnell (admin) Sep 03, 2008
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- Last edited Sep 04, 2008
They have changed it now, and the change is retrospective. Now it says
11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content
which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.
