Keep in mind that I am a teenager
Keep in mind that I am a teenager
LMAO, keep in mind it is its FIRST day out in public. The first firefox sucked compared to what it is now (even though i hate it now more than i did). All open-source products will grow and expand/improve as time goes on and more people put more time into it.
Keep in mind that I am a teenager and EVERYTHING is moving towards Google. Heck, for our computer classes, everyone is required to make a gmail account and use the google docs etc.
yes, it's back to the basics when the plug gets pulled. Back to the technology of survival.In the "real world" not everything is moving toward Google.
im sorry that google has single handedly revolutionized near everything you use on the computer today. I think maybe you should thank them every once in a while since near all their products are free instead of criticizing them. Im sorry you dont think they are a great company but i think you seem to be more critical than thankful.
Google has had far less influence on my computer use than you think Trusite. To me, they are strictly a search engine.
I don't use gmail, google apps, google earth. I still prefer mapquest to google maps.
The privacy concerns I have with Google ARE well founded. They have a photograph of my house, with my car in the driveway, including the license plate. What if I had a child in the front yard when that photo was taken?
Taking claim to anything I publish while using their browser is copyright infringement. Regardless of their EULA if you want my opinion.
Your comments about Google might be right. They HAVE changed a lot of things in the computer world. Microsoft has as well, I'm not going to sing their praises either. I recognize a company that's riding a thin line that is "Legal" but "Immoral" while claiming their company motto is "Don't Be Evil."
When the Linux Chrome Beta comes out I'll give it a fair shake. I doubt I'll use for for more than a couple days. Firefox 3 is a VERY good browser, and doesn't give anyone but me license to use any of my content but me.
Just out of curiosity... why does it make you laugh that people are concerned about retaining their intellectual property rights?
If you wrote a paper, submitted it to your instructor as homework, and your instructor claimed rights to portions or all of that paper (without necessarily giving you credit for it) in order to sell his or her services to someone else, that would be a funny situation to you? Because that's effectively what that portion of the EULA says, and some of us don't find that particularly entertaining.
I wouldn't give a flying rat's behind... then again I don't buy into intellectual property... (and before you bash that note that I am published). I think hoarding knowledge is a pretty crappy thing, especially when some lady can write a few books and literally become a billionaire over night (Rowling) the guys at google feel the same... knowledge should be shared in all of it's forms without the need to give something of intrinsic value in exchange for it.
I think hoarding knowledge is a pretty crappy thing, especially when some lady can write a few books and literally become a billionaire over night (Rowling) the guys at google feel the same... knowledge should be shared in all of it's forms without the need to give something of intrinsic value in exchange for it.
Honestly... I respect the opinion, but I HIGHLY disagree.
The reasoning is this. As a musician, artist, and free thinker... I take pride in the work that I do. It's my creativity and an extension of my soul. I do production work as well, and that takes HOURS of building, HOURS of mixing and mastering in HOPES that someone will purchase it.
That... is my time, my energy, my creativity, and my soul. It, effectively, is an extension of MYSELF. For someone to have license to effectively re-publish my work (and everything that went into it) as theirs is not only Unethical, it's Immoral.
Such licensing provides legal protection for someone to steal. I personally have a problem with that.
Ryan, are you really saying that all any of the great artists or writers were only manufacturers? I do what I do because I love the creative process, I love seeing an image come to life from out of my head. Is it wrong for me to be willing to share that with others who find it speaks to them for a fee? It is fine to share things, I give away a lot of my photos to friends and families but if I didn't sell any of them I wouldn't be able to afford to do this. I certainly have purchased my share of art over the years and never once did I feel that someone took advantage of me by making me pay for it. If you don't want to sell it then you are a hobbyist not a professional.
Now take what you just said Ryan, and apply it to the Chrome EULA which says. "ANYTHING" you submit while using this product, you give license to Google to use.....
If I use my Private Web Server, on my Local Area Network, to store and sort Pami's 10,000 Photographs, and I use Google's Chrome browser to manage that gallery which is not open for the public. If I used Chrome to upload the images, write descriptions of the images, set titles, group them, etc. Google claims they have the right to reproduce, publish, etc. those images..... How is that "Right" in any sense of the word?
im sure i could make assumptions about your age group too.
If you use their product, it's your problem. If you don't like their product, or the terms of it. You don't use it. It is as simple as that. It's a free product, you don't have to sue it, no one is making you use it. You aren't paying for it.
If you have a family member that tells everyone your business... what do you do... you don't tell them things you don't want broadcast. If you don't want your stuff to be fair-game for Google to use... don't use their products. I don't send anything through my gmail that I don't want them to have access to, and I discontinued use of Chrome after a few hours becuase I don't like things it does... their EULA is part of the program... if you don't like the EULA don't use the program... but when a company develops something and offers it to you for free, don't complain to them you don't like the conditions that come with it. Just say 'no thanks' and don't use it.
I agree completely. This is WHY I'm not going to use Google Chrome.
However so few people actually read the License Agreement they agree to when hitting "accept" that something this important should be brought to their attention.
Like I said, Technically speaking, Google Chrome is a neat product and a step in the right direction. Administratively speaking it's completely Foo and Bar for business use.