Chrome’s tarnished surface

This week we saw the release of Google's Chrome, a new browser. During the first day, people noticed that well, Google is not all about the 'do no evil' mission statement. Section 11.1 of the EULA stated that: "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." Basically, Googled owned your ass, mine, and everything else your browser might cough up. Why such a blatent error? Google PR calls it a honest mistake of cute and paste. But are lawyers really that stupid? Who knows. At least they came to their senses and rewrote Section 11.1: "11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services." While bloggers and teckies are snickering that the chrome has been tarnished, Chrome is quite exciting. But will this new browser make life even more difficult for developers and designs? As if there isn't enough trouble with the IE family of browsers, we now add one more to the mix. What's the take?

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