A few more things about Google Docs.

First – http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/addlterms.html

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Section 11.1 of the Terms of Service governing Google Docs is replaced in its entirety by:

“You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Service. By submitting, posting or displaying the Content you give Google a worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through the Service for the sole purpose of enabling Google to provide you with the Service in accordance with its Privacy Policy.”

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For real? Eh…In the off chance – No thanks.

Also, see my comments about Word or Open Office. Google Docs shares the same “pitfall” with these apps in this application. It’s plain. It’s just another text editor in the vein of its desktop competitors.

It requires Google Gears (where do the offline-state files get saved?, and it runs in a web browser (in my case, FireFox). I haven’t been posting about it but my feelings about FireFox as of late (3.5+) have been very sour. If i had a fast machine, these things would be more of a non-issue, but when FireFox soaks up all of my measly ram just being open – it stops becoming an option.

Actually looking to move from FireFox into something else, but that’s a whole post its self.

It’s great that it I can use it offline and when GoMoorhead/702 is feeling friendly, will sync for me (with some form of Revision control built in). It’s just as capable as any of the other things I looked at even though I would have a hard time choosing it over Word or OpenOffice both of which are on the computer(s) I plan to use. In fact, I actually like MS Word a lot. They all can get the job done, but are plain and boring.

Kind of like a Toyota Corolla.

Its a brilliant solution for a lot of people, It’s just not going to work for me. Not this time.