[ale] google docs

[drifter]

My son tried to talk me into creating an account on Google Docs.

So I started down the path and my first stumble was Google's need for my 
birth date.  There can be no legitimate need for that data.
Then I started reading the Terms Of Service.

Buried within were these two paragraphs:

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content 
which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By 
submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, 
irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive licence to 
reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly 
display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or 
through, the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling 
Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked 
for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

    11.2 You agree that this licence includes a right for Google to make 
such Content available to other companies, organizations or individuals 
with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated 
services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those 
services.

(You'd think they would know how to spell 'license.')

I won't be using this, ah, "service."  It is a license to steal, for 
financial gain.

Sean