I got tossed a pointer to this blog entry: http://www.edrants.com/google-chrome-is-bad-for-writers-bloggers/ I also blogged this at Copyfight: http://copyfight.corante.com/archives/2008/09/03/google_chrome_and_copyright.php
For the tl;dr crowd: Google's EULA for Chrome claims the right to use, redistribute, and profit from, any content created in Chrome. That would include this email, blog entries, and so on. But more scarily, it could be extended to my RIAs. Which are used by securities traders. If they run my app in Chrome, does Google think it has any rights to those customers' financial data? I can't imagine anything that would scare customers away from RIAs faster. No matter how good it is for designers and developers of RIAs, if customers believe their data is at risk by using this browser they'll flop in the commercial space. I wouldn't be surprised to see Chrome barred from corporate desktops if this is really their approach. (Individuals may be less sensitive - I suppose it will vary from person to person and depend a lot on whether Google really uses those rights it claims. Corporations are much more risk-averse.) It's still very early in the game, but I'm not liking what I'm seeing so far, regardless of how cool the technology is. --Alan ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
