Definition. 1  Insulin resistance is not a disease as such but rather a state or condition in which a person's body tissues have a lowered level of response to insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas that helps to regulate the level of glucose (sugar) in the body.
When Google released free navigation software for Android it greatly undermined the navigation software business. With Android, GMail, Chrome OS, etc free, individuals are discouraged from building better mobile OSes and/or better email programs. Even when they are not discourage it is harder to raise capital to compete with free, from Google and this is bad for innovation and progress. UpdateCancel.
If you've ever used Google's free Chrome browser, you may be aware that it's closely related to another, similarly named Google project called Chromium.. Chrome and Chromium share a heavy portion of their core browser code, but Chrome is a proprietary Google product, while Chromium is open source.Both serve Linux, Windows and Mac OS X platforms, however, and both continue to vie for user share with Mozilla's open source Firefox, their distant cousin.oogle released a large portion of Chrome's source code as an open source project called Chromium for the Windows platform in September 2008. The intent was to encourage third-party software developers to review its underlying code and contribute to porting the browser to Linux and Mac platforms.