Google has react with haste to the huge cry about a section inChrome‘s EULAthat gives Google“a perpetual , irrevocable , worldwide , royal line - spare , and non - sole license ” to do all kinds of dirty poppycock — in world no less — to cognitive content you mail through Chrome . Rebecca Ward , Senior Product Counsel for Google Chrome , told Arsthat it ’s actually an oopsie from essentially copying and pasting the same EULA it employ in other products , and that they ’re updating it as fast as they can to hit the ridiculous terms . She says that Google is
“ work rapidly to bump off language from Section 11 of the current Google Chrome term of inspection and repair . This alteration will apply retroactively to all users who have downloaded Google Chrome . ”
It ’s not that I do n’t trust Google , but the Ctrl+C , Ctrl+V explanation ( “ this means that the effectual damage for a specific product may admit footing that do n’t hold well to the use of that product ” ) seems like an odd oversight for a productin hidden , backbreaking growing for close to two years . ( If you ’re interested in Chrome , read Steven Levy ’s thick inside feature of speech about its birth , it ’s great . ) Either style , whether Google knew it was in there and hoped it would slue — though I ca n’t see a reason for that — or it was an honorable mistake , it ’ll be fixed soon . [ Ars ]
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