Full disclosure

I was reading fellow ZDNet’ter Josh Greenbaum’s most recent article on terms of service where he compares Google and PBWiki. I’ve said before and agree with Josh that:

Just in case you might be tempted to excuse Google for what some commentators just consider sloppy language (or over-reaching on my part) in its terms of service for its on-line apps, here’s an example of how to do right by accepted corporate standards for security and privacy: the terms of service for PB Wiki, an on-line wiki provider that apparently takes seriously what Google and its lawyers (or whoever wrote those sloppy, loophole-full TOS) seems to not give a hoot about.

It’s a well crafted piece that any decision taker thinking about GoogleApps would do well to bookmark for future reference. But it was at the end I had to sit back and guffaw. Here’s what it says about Josh:

Joshua Greenbaum’s opinions on enterprise software have annoyed enough vendors that he now checks under the hood of his PC every morning before he boots up. For disclosures of Joshua’s industry affiliations, click here.

Very occasionally, I’ll beat up on Josh for what he does but there’s no denying he has a way of annoying the vendors, largely because like many of our generation, he has a very long memory of just how much the vendor community can mess up. We need folk like Josh and I for one am glad he’s currently in sparkling form.