tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16867968.post113052439282218808..comments2023-09-17T04:14:05.434-05:00Comments on Adventures in Library Land: Law and gOFFICE.comKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01554496180206096813noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16867968.post-1131047194655335082005-11-03T14:46:00.000-05:002005-11-03T14:46:00.000-05:00Todd,I appreciate you taking the time to comment o...Todd,<BR/>I appreciate you taking the time to comment on my post gOFFICE. However, I am not convinced yet that gOFFICE is something I should sign up for. I think the product has a lot to offer and all the things you mentioned - tons of fonts, PDF capability, backgrounds, etc - are reasons I'd love to use it, not to mention the soon-to-be-available spreadsheet and presentation options. <BR/><BR/>However, despite what you said about not spamming or telemarketing, your Privacy Policy seems to me to say otherwise. Also, the selection of blogs included on the "Press" page tie gOFFICE to Google: the first one is entitled "What is Google?" and the last one is "What is Google up to?" The blog titles are not changing so I don't think it's taking a random sampling of blogs mentioning "gOffice". So you are promoting the idea of a link between gOFFICE and Google that is not actually there. Those blog postings linking gOFFICE to Google should be taken out of that list.<BR/><BR/>Originally I "googled" to find out if gOFFICE was a Google product and it took me a long time to find anything stating that it was not. There seems to be only one news article out there that actually clears up that perhaps all-too-common misconception.<BR/><BR/>However, I am planning to take your suggestion to call gOFFICE, but I want to check out the site more thoroughly first so I can be prepared with questions and quotes to back up why I arrived at certain conclusions about gOFFICE. <BR/><BR/>That said, I think it's great that you search the blogosphere for those bloggers posting about gOFFICE.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01554496180206096813noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16867968.post-1130908545253573462005-11-02T00:15:00.000-05:002005-11-02T00:15:00.000-05:00Kat,we share your privacy concerns at gOFFICE. We...Kat,<BR/>we share your privacy concerns at gOFFICE. We do not spam or telemarket. Documents you create and store on gOFFICE are yours--we do not edit, remove or tamper with these. We also admire Writely (as well as many web 2.0 apps), but would like to note that the sites offer different things. gOFFICE documents offer superior, printable, beautiful PDF output. We have unique letter backgrounds and hundreds of fonts. We have a thousand plus texts to help with writing--and also allow users to donate to the public text library. We do all of this with no download. We actually have significant traffic from libraries, as many libraries do not have office apps loaded on the public computers. Students use the site at these terminals to write class assignments--and they do not need to own a copy of Word to produce professional looking work. Please call if you would like to discuss these or other issues--or if you would like to suggest features you might find particularly useful--we like talking with gOFFICE users.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16867968.post-1130792617801169672005-10-31T16:03:00.000-05:002005-10-31T16:03:00.000-05:00Stacy,I found that today, too. I downloaded it an...Stacy,<BR/>I found that today, too. I downloaded it and tested it out on gOFFICE.com. It found the paragraph about spamming and telemarketing but only actually tagged the very end of it about gOFFICE not sharing your financial data or social security information. It passed over the spam and telemarket stuff, so you'd still want to read the agreement.<BR/><BR/>I will try it out on a few other license agreements at some point, probably. It is really easy to use. You just have to copy/paste the license agreement ino the EULAlyzer.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01554496180206096813noreply@blogger.com