lastest chromium update U12.04LTS issue

[Tom Poe]

On 08/07/2014 09:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.
>
I apologize, profusely, for my ignorance.  Thank you for letting me know 
how utterly stupid I am about computers and how FOSS works.  I will 
humbly commit to lurking, and not asking stupid questions, again.
Tom