lastest chromium update U12.04LTS issue

[Liam Proven]

On 7 August 2014 15:57, Tom Poe <tompoe at meltel.net> wrote:
> Liam:  Thank you for pointing that out to me, and other Ubuntu users.

I was trying to help. You appeared to be under a misapprehension. If
you do not want advice or help, do please say so and save me the time
and the effort.

>  So, I
> install Ubuntu, which relies on the Chromium web browser,

No it doesn't. It bundles and defaults to Firefox, *not* Chromium.
Chromium is a testbed for the future versions of Chrome; it is not
written or supported by Canonical and nothing is guaranteed to work.

> and when Ubuntu
> updates the Chromium web browser

Ubuntu merely incorporates the latest build from Google's developers;
it does not update anything to do with Chromium itself.

You appear not to understand how FOSS works.

> I need to go someplace and download Chrome
> from the Google search engine company?

If you want the current version of Flash on Linux, yes, you do. Chrome
is the only product which incorporates it.

>  For some reason, I thought I was
> working with an Open Source distribution for Linux operating systems.

Which it seems you only have a poor and incorrect understanding of.

> Am I
> witnessing a corporate assault on Open Source software?

Yes. Flash is closed-source, proprietary software. The Linux version
is not being updated any more. That is why you need Chrome. It is also
why neither Flash nor Chrome is included with Ubuntu by default and
only comes from external repositories.

In other words, your hostile and sarcastic response to an informative
answer is based on you not understanding what you are working with or
the ramifications of what you are asking about.

Either apologise, or tell me your contact details so that I can send
you an invoice for my time. I am willing to put up with stupid,
hostile, confrontational customers when they are paying, but not for
free.

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