[OpenIndiana-discuss] google drive on openindiana?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2012, Hans J. Albertsson wrote:

> I was at a presentation yesterday evening about google drive, and tried it 
> out on my OI environment today.
>
> It seems that not having Chrome on OI, or the special Google Drive software 
> GDrive, limits the experience significantly.. Lots of Drive Apps require 
> Chrome and those that do sort of work on Firefox seem to have problems being 
> made available for the Open With menu on Google Drive, or even accessing the 
> Drive for storing results.
>
> Has anyone found  a way to integrate Google Drive neatly into an Open Indiana 
> environment? Or can this be expected to be easier in the future?

Unless Google Chrome is made completely available as free open source, 
including all mutimedia players, and with a way to disable Google's 
proprietary trackers, it should be seen as an outright assault on 
Solaris and its derivatives.

Google's ploys for encouraging the installation and use of Chrome 
(displacing Firefox) are downright shameful.

Yesterday I was using a Ubuntu Linux system remotely.  I clicked on a 
link and a window popped up asking if I wanted to make Chrome my 
default browser and if I wanted to start Chrome.  There was no way to 
quit this window other than 'xkill' (Window manager buttons disabled) 
and no way to select a different browser.

Likewise, on a Windows VM with limited storage allocation, I installed 
Adobe Reader.  The installation process also installed Google Chrome 
(1.2GB of precious space) at the same time with no indication that it 
was going to do such a thing and no apparent way to opt out.

Now Adobe is ditching Flash except for from within Google Chrome. 
Adobe has become allied with Google and is transferring its various 
monopoly powers (Flash and Acrobat Reader) to Google.

Google is rapidly becoming the next Microsoft.

Bob
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