Jim Cheetham wrote:
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Gabriella Turek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Brett Davidson wrote:
It does not mention anywhere on their site that it runs ads while software
is loading from Amazon's SS3 service.
Hardly "open", let alone "fair".
Ah, that explains the business model.... Call me old fashioned, but the
idea of having all my "stuff" and software beyond my control somewhere
out there (in the US gov't jurisdiction no less!) does not give me
any warm and fuzzies
Well, that's pretty much the definition of "in the cloud"; Google and
Amazon are the two best-known application providers at the moment, I
guess Hotmail was the first and some people like Yahoo ... not "open",
but not "unfair".
However, the "running adverts" part is *not* a required part of
in-the-cloud, and it's a business model that has been tried many many
times, with things like "free" ISPs, as well as most websites. I
wonder if you could install adblocker software on the local part of
the CherryPal?
-jim
The whole thing is run from Firefox (no OS interaction) so I'm sure some
extensions will be made that will do this... :-)
Whether or not extensions are allowed to be installed or not is another
question that will need to be answered once the product is actually
released.
Brat.
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Brett Davidson
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