That sounds very similar to Google Services EULA, which says the author retains ownership, but adds that Google essentially has all the (non-revocable) rights normally associated with ownership, including the right to transfer the IP to other businesses that they do business with.

While, I understand your people's concerns, and while some EULAs can be very, well tricky and not really benefit you. My main point is not really that this is the wave of the future, but really more like you hosting your own web based apps with in your own network. Which would allow for very fast and efficient application deployment.

I am very excited to see exactly where it goes, because I think a lot of things need to migrate to being web based. That way you get around the platform war, and if you can run your apps from any web browser it then allows you the freedom to run whatever hardware and OS you want to.

I also think that it will not replace everything, just some things.

Nice idea about on-line photoshop. It may save your money, I think. For example, a person who have windows-prog only could run them on mac avoiding any virtual machines. By the way I bought parallels because of wish to save money. I have a lot of progs for PC only. Now on mac I run them via parallels :)

Sorry, I've registered and realized that this site is simple for sharing photos... Like a lot of others. Are you sure that there is an on-line prog photoshop?

It is suppose to have some photoshop like features, but I haven't played with it too much.

IANAL, but I would interpret that to mean that if you don't give them that right, they feel that they cannot take advantages of outsourced services like Amazon S3 to optimize storage and retrieval of customer data because they would be transferring your IP to a business that is not theirs.

What I wish companies would do is tell us why they have to say these things. When they don't, it sounds like an out-and-out rights grab, when in reality, it may just be that their lawyers said they cannot execute their heavily outsourced and cross-media business plan without the proper licenses to move customer data to all those places and media.