We are having a very interesting discussion about Google Chrome on one of the web design mailing lists I'm on. The discussion is around the license agreement -
""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.""
Here is what one person had to say -
"I had a VERY interesting face2face discussion with a Googler today who's
been working there for about seven years. When I told him why I wasn't
even interested in Chrome or Desktop or any of their products he asked
why. When I said the license agreement and the fact that, according to
two IP attorneys I had consulted, G could basically have free use of
anything their code touched, he backed off unbelievably. Probably
something about touching a nerve and, if a person not involved in
product marketing or development backs off that way, I figure they've
been told something!"
