Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Chrome worries and paranoia

There are a lot of people on the internet who read through the Chrome EULA, and found this one paragraph:

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. 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.

People are panicking, and threatening to not use the browser, based on the fact that anything we view in it (for example, a Corporate Intranet) is now the property of Google. I really doubt that these Terms of Service will last very long, since they make no sense at all.

However, this blog post belongs to Google anyways, since it's posted on Blogger. All my email belongs to them too, sine I have a Gmail account. If I used Google Docs, then all those Docs would belong to them. That's their standard EULA, no joke. What's the alternative, though? I could use another blog/email provider, but then they would have rights to my posts and emails. I could host everything on my own, but that gets to be a pain to manage.

So, I'll just continue using the services, and wait for the lawyers to make Google change the EULA. Life will go on.

1 comment:

Jenny said...

Big Brother Is Watching You....

"Get back to work," he says...