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Old 15th October 2010
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Google Chrome for Linux makes a lot of assumptions about running on Linux, they aren't overly interested in running on other Unix-like systems.

For Windows, they wanted to make use of "technologies" available there.

The same goes for the Mac and Linux ports, the Linux port just happened to be similar enough to get working on BSD.. after some rewriting and patching.

This guy wants to be compensated for the work, which is perfectly understandable, and making available commercial/proprietary software in the ports trees has never been a problem for any of the BSD projects, I believe Richard Stallman has even trolled on OpenBSD's mailing lists about this before.

If you don't want to pay the guy then you have other options available:
  • Use a different browser, there are plenty of browses based on WebKit like Chrome.
  • Roll up your sleeves and start working on porting the latest Chromium code to FreeBSD, submit an updated port.
  • Use Firefox or.. "Opera".
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