[ale] OT: Google releases new OS browser - CHROME

[Jeff Lightner]

I like Google as a search engine and play with some of their other tools
from time to time but I'm a little leery of letting them have the
browser.  It's much like I felt when Oracle came out with OEL (so called
Oracle Unbreakable Linux).   Giving any one company too much control of
what you do just begs for M$ style abuses.  One has to wonder why they
decided to make their own rather than suggest improvements to Firefox
which they have been supporting.

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Cartwright
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 6:53 AM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] OT: Google releases new OS browser - CHROME

Jim Philips wrote:
> On Thursday 04 September 2008 09:19:48 Robert Reese~ wrote:
> >> so the winders world gets another chunk of spyware to run on their
> >> box. And Google gets deeper access to everything they do. "Do no
> >> evil" is pretty vague and referenceless. They can do a lot of
> >> "really bad" before they cross the line to "evil".
> >> I'm glad I run GNU/Linux!
> > .:sigh:.  Would you like a little tinfoil to go with that whine?
> >
> > If someone doesn't like whatever you presume Chrome is doing, then
> they are
> > perfectly allowed to remove that functionality from the source code
and
> > redistribute it.
> >
> > R~
>
> On a similar front: Has anybody tried ubiquity for Firefox? It gives
you
> something like a command-line terminal where you can execute simple
> commands
> and see results immediately. For instance:
>
> weather atlanta, ga
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/weather-util


  Package: weather-util (1.4-1)


    command-line tool to obtain weather conditions and forecasts

This utility is intended to provide quick access to current weather
conditions and forecasts. Presently, it is capable of providing data for
localities throughout the United States of America by retrieving and
processing METAR data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and forecasts from the National Weather Service.



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Paul Cartwright
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Registered Ubuntu User #12459
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