Dave Winer039s Response to Dropbox

Dave Winer: "I've deleted my Dropbox account."

THAT is exactly what I was afraid of. Dave has done some very cool things with Dropbox. If you think that's not a loss for the company then research what Dave has accomplished (apache and Dropbox web server). He's been a significant promoter of Dropbox  and likely driven a good amount of traffic to their site.

There was no need for this. Copying Google's or SugarSync's TOS is not an excuse. I never thought I would say it, but Microsoft actually has better TOS for their cloud service. So does MobileMe. Perhaps larger companies can afford to take bigger legal risks. I'm not sure. But I am sure I will not store anything on Dropbox (or SugarSync or Google Docs) that I would not be comfortable storing in my public folder. At least until the TOS are revised further, which appears to be happening.

There's an excellent review of various TOS by Ed Bott.

Here are Simplenote's TOS to add to the group.