[Noisebridge-discuss] do you guys want a uservoice account?

Ian ian at slumbrparty.com
Thu Oct 29 20:56:23 UTC 2009


On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
> John Menerick wrote, On 20091029 053929:
>>
>> According to Uservoice's TOS, you give over all your rights and license
>> UserVoice to do with as they wish and desire.
>>
>> Think Facebook but one step scarier in terms of privacy and content
>> ownership.
>>
>> "..You give the party who owns the Hosted Area in which you post your
>> Content (the "Account Holder") a non-exclusive, free, worldwide license
>> for the duration of the applicable author's rights, to publish your
>> Content. In addition to the right to publish, you also grant the Account
>> Holder under said license the following rights, without limitation: (i)
>> the right to reproduce; (ii) the right to transfer, which includes the
>> distribution via computer and networks; (iii) the right to edit, modify,
>> adapt, arrange, improve, correct, translate, in all or in part; (iv) the
>> right to update/upgrade by adding or removing; and (v) the right to
>> film, perform or post the Content in any media. Except as described in
>> our Privacy Policy, neither the Company nor any Account Holder will be
>> required to treat any Content as confidential.
>> In order to operate and improve the Service, the Company needs the right
>> to make certain uses of your Content as well. Therefore, when you post
>> Content in any Hosted Area, you also agree to grant the Company an
>> irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, fully sublicenseable,
>> non-exclusive license to copy, distribute, sell, publicly display,
>> publicly perform and make derivative works of your Content on the
>> Service and on services affiliated with the Service regardless of the
>> form of media used or of whether such services now exist or are
>> developed in the future......"
>
> Thanks John.
>
> Ian: I really don't appreciate the usage of services under the Noisebridge
> banner that are constrained such as how this TOS is written out. Many of our
> members are in support of being very transparent with our ideas and data,
> such as why there's a strong support for open source software and the usage
> of the Creative Commons.
>
> Noisebridge doesn't require a fee from members or guests to access its
> facilities or use any of it's online available resources.
>
> With what information has derived from this thread, Uservoice is a closed
> source service that owns any content you feed it. If at a later time
> Uservoice decides that it would no longer like to honor its free service to
> non-profits, any data we've thrown into it would no longer be accessible to
> our members and guests. Same would go for if Uservoice decided to
> discontinue its service to a hacker space due to content it found
> questionable, such as this one...
>
> http://noisebridge.uservoice.com/pages/32406-general/suggestions/369046-find-security-vulnerabilities-in-uservoice-com?ref=title
>
> Lastly Noisebridge is consensus based, we don't take votes to figure out
> things. When someone is against something we stop, rethink and discuss. If
> someone is against the idea then dialog needs to happen. Uservoice isn't
> setup for this at all.
>
> I'm not trying to be a dick here, nor am I stating you shouldn't provide
> Noisebridge with services from a company you work for. But I feel my opinion
> should go heard, and that it is inline with how a number of other members
> feel about this general topic.
>
> --
> Rubin Abdi
> rubin at starset.net
>

thanks for your feedback. i just thought this was a service that could
help noisebridge. if anyone doesnt feel that way, then please by all
means do not use it.



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