Originally Posted by
pittpanther
I'm trying to understand the case where anyone would use Drive for any serious work, after reading those terms and conditions?
- certainly no corporate Legal department would allow you to put their IP on Drive
- I can't imagine that anyone in R&D would use it, and risk exposure of confidential materials
- same for anyone in academia
- same for any artists/designers - do you lose control of your copyright by uploading to Drive?
So other than a cool place to store my porn, what's the business case?
It's designed for personal files that you want to have available anywhere.
Any business that has half-thought this through already has an IT policy that forbids storing company data on public cloud services. I know my last two companies had such policies.
R&D - especially of the confidential high-tech kind - almost certainly has similar prohibitions in place.
Academia - maybe. Depends on the subject matter.