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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Steam for Linux


From: Gustavo C. M.
Subject: Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Steam for Linux
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:20:17 -0200

Chromium is blacklisted in Parabola:
https://wiki.parabolagnulinux.org/Blacklist

"chromium::(1) Copyright or license of some code is unclear (2) Links to
proprietary plugins."

Em Sáb, 2012-11-10 às 10:15 -0500, Michael Mehrazar escreveu:
> On 11/10/2012 09:54 AM, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
> > Actually Google Chrome has an offspring, a Free Software version
called
> > Chromium browser.
> > 
> > It has few differences vs
> > Chrome : no flash, no built in PDF reader, and no auto-updates, but
it
> > works great on my Debian machines.
> > Chromium is great, and I can recommend it.
> > 
> > -Technologov
> > 
> 
> I'm well aware of Chromium. In fact, you got it mixed up, Google
Chrome
> is based off of the free software project Chromium. (Both are
developed
> by Google however)
> 
> However my point is not that Firefox is the only acceptable free
> software browser to use, obviously there are many such acceptable
> browsers. My point is that it's very important that free software
> remains easy to use, otherwise, non-technical users will not be able
to
> use free software. And Chromium, unlike Firefox or Google Chrome, is
> fairly difficult to download and update, unless it's part of your
> distributions package manager. (Which is not the case for Windows or
Mac
> OS, which is where the majority of our target audience still lies)
> 

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