In a BS post about Google’s TOS for Google Docs, the founder of Writely, the company acquired by Google for web-based office applications responded in the comments. Part of his response:

To be clear, Google will not use your documents beyond the scope that you and you alone control. Your fantasy football spreadsheets are not going to end up shared with the world unless you want them to be.

Maybe he was reading FatMixx?

And, on the subject of the silly post by Joshua Greenbaum, it sure seems like he’s just making a random controversy up to get traffic. Seriously, Greenbaum omits the key phrase “intended to be available to the members of the public” to fabricate a TOS controversy that Google is trying to own your documents. You know you’ve hit on a serious topic when the longest arguments in the comments thread talks about the proper way to parse the statement according to proper rules of grammar. What is the meaning of “is” anyway?