Google Docs sneaks charges in through the back door

I thought the profits came from the spying you allow and in the case of businesses from name-recognition in the businessworld automatically raising your stock prices.

I like Google Docs, it's improved quite a bit lately; however i hate how it doesn't have a print preview option. I was editing my CV the other day and it lets you insert a page break but what good is that if you can't see what it will look like on paper. If people want to pay for an incomplete product its up to them. I recommend the free OpenOffice or IBM Lotus Symphony.

One other thing Google should change is the way you attach files in GMail. It should have an attach button because if you attach the wrong file it says "still working" and you have to wait.

Open Office is the best way to go if you want free. I don't see why it has not already destroyed MS Office, it is now that good. Then no worries about big brother spying in on you as you type a document and their is a print preview too.

You'll end up with a world where you cannot; type a document, search the net, use a spreadsheet, make a presentation, listen to your own music etc, without logging on to someone else's server and paying a subscription.
When that day comes you will remember the freedoms you used to have and miss them and it will your own fault for allowing these companies to take everything over and "have it on their servers for safety and comfort's sake"
They already censor the net in China and elsewhere. How much more do you need to be told?
That the "once free service is now a pay-for service"?
What if you become reliant on this service and then the price goes up?

Lazy, shallow people with no care or concern for the future. All these freedoms, most so sorely won, and this generation is handing them all away in the name of convenience.

I don't see what's wrong with that, it's still free for most of the businesses that would use it.
If you're stupid enough to pay for M$ Office instead - then you deserve it.

First of all, I'd like to point out that I will never use a paying service online if I can find a free one that works. OpenOffice IS good enough.
That said, I've been on the Net since 1995 and I've been following the evolution since then. There are good things, and there are bad things about the Net, but I think this is still a mostly new world for the majority of users. And more new users are coming online every day.
These new people will need time to find out what is best for them, especially since they are at the bottom of the learning curve.
I do not think that paying services are going to take over the net. You can't beat free, after all, and there are enough dedicated people working on open projects to make things available for years to come.
Plus, people might subscribe to paying services for a while, but nobody is rich and one day they'll decide they've paid enough. That day, they'll check out the free stuff and find, hopefully, that it fits their needs.
Meanwhile, companies DO have the right to sell products, and nobody is making Google Docs mandatory.
So let's give the market a bit of time. There's enough place for everyone, after all.