Dear Anand:
I tried to leave you a comment on the following blog
but apparently it didn’t pass moderation so I am going to leave it on my blog
and tweet it so you are aware of it.

If I am appalled by what Dataviz did, I seriously advice you remove this paragraph about competitors from your terms of service because it is a serious impediment to the productivity of our industry as well as unenforceable.
1) You basically are asking your competition to ask their employees to read the terms of service of all the sites they visit. You know as well as i do that this is not enforceable and completely counterproductive;
2) You are also asking your competition to limit their choice of consultants and limit the consultant ability to perform their work;
3) Lastly, if you are serious about asking your competitors to enforce this clause, I am surprised that you show screenshots of Dataviz in your blog. By doing so, you are using information obtained by a source that would clearly breach your term of service.
2) You are also asking your competition to limit their choice of consultants and limit the consultant ability to perform their work;
3) Lastly, if you are serious about asking your competitors to enforce this clause, I am surprised that you show screenshots of Dataviz in your blog. By doing so, you are using information obtained by a source that would clearly breach your term of service.

Lastly, if you want to frame a culture and lead the industry this way, make sure you let people write comments on your blog posts. After all, we live in the 21st century in the open internet and this wall you have created for yourself seems very very old school to me.
Philippe Cases, CEO Spoke Software
PS: in the
spirit of full disclosure, I received this blog tracking your company through
Owler. You can see how bad I am.
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