Dave,
If you want to get together and talk this out my number is tree xex oh, for oh too, ate neighn fife too. I'm just down the road in Tacoma, and I'd love to have a beer with you and talk about old times.
You are seriously confused. The sums involved are far more than is required to buy a US Presidency, and all the key stakes in Congress. These are businesses, and they take the least cost course. Figure it out.
No, the problem is that most people are ignorant. And there's no help for it. Most people are (less informed) than us and that's not going to change. Our world is ruled by people who don't even understand what's happening to them, or why. Once you understand that, your mission is clear.
Google makes their money with local ads. It's not unreasonable to expect that they pay local tax rates for local ads in Taiwan bought by local Taiwan businesses and served from local Taiwan servers. That is entirely different from making your software in Redmond, WA, licensing it through a Nevada puppet corporation and then laundering the money through the double-Dutch or Blind Irish mechanisms of financial wizardry to make the profit happen offshore when that same software is sold from Khazakstan to Bangalore, and all the points between.
We've been working around browser features for a long time. We started learning how with IE 3.0. The foibles of browsers being what they are to claim some criminal intent on the methods of site designers for minor privacy issues with an individual browser devolves into everybody involved in Internet technologies being sent to the Gulag. That's going to impede progress.
This is a fairly standard method. If Safari's design allows more disclosure than intended that's Safari's fault, not Google's. If this is not the intended functionality it's a browser bug and should be fixed.
These companies all sell products with GPL software (Linux) in them. What part of the value provided is software and what is hardware is a subjective judgment with no basis in fact. Google's services run on GPL software so they're leveraging that to keep its costs down. They're leveraging Linux in Android to stay alive in the mobile market too. The rest of those companies ship hardware with Linux in it - and if didn't have Linux in it they would either have to pay more to replace it with something else and/or be slower to market, have a less satisfactory end user experience, have less control of the user experience, be unable to differentiate their product. IBM, Oracle and HP do sell a LOT of Linux systems. Dell less so. I'm no so sure what the prevalence of Linux is in Comcast's set-top DVR, but I'm pretty sure it's in there - but that's more of a lease than a sale. There are many, many more. I didn't mention Intel which is working on at least two Linux-based OSes that I know of. And Amazon and Rackspace, Box and Dropbox and Backblaze and Bluehost and all the other cloud folks of course, selling linux-based services of one sort or another.
Some of these companies approach Microsoft's market power individually, and together they dwarf it. Sure, none of them is exclusively software - but some might see that as an advantage in a world where we can so easily lose interest in one way of doing things. Microsoft isn't the 800lb gorilla any more, intimidating everybody on the field like they once were. More and more they're just a bully, standing alone on the soccer field yelling at the backs of all the folks who've decided not to play with them any more.
And coming back to the topic at hand, for now at least it seems Linux is essential to Microsoft's operations too.
Google is also a multibillion dollar company, and they sell software under the GPL. In fact in terms of market cap they're pretty close to each other right now. I believe IBM, HP, Dell and Samsung could be on that list too. And Comcast, Oracle and Cisco too, I think. I'm sure there's more, but that should do.
It may, however, be handy in space. Like Planetary Resources is planning to do. Because for high data rate communications over long distances in space with low power it's pretty awesome.
Nokia also sold some patents to Sisvel to go patent trolling with. I thought I read they had several of these out there. So they can keep this up all day, suing the same people over and over. And Nokia isn't the only one. So the only way to win this is to just not ever pay the Dane.
I'm quite sure that in the better interest of Microsoft shareholders Microsoft will appeal this decision even unto the Supreme Court. And lose. But in the interim they will have made more money than they spent, because that's how they roll.
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Dave, If you want to get together and talk this out my number is tree xex oh, for oh too, ate neighn fife too. I'm just down the road in Tacoma, and I'd love to have a beer with you and talk about old times.
The problem is far deeper than that.
You are seriously confused. The sums involved are far more than is required to buy a US Presidency, and all the key stakes in Congress. These are businesses, and they take the least cost course. Figure it out.
Seriously, Amazon is messed up. I could break Amazon and I'm not skilled in that art. Amazon is likely to break themselves by accident.
No, the problem is that most people are ignorant. And there's no help for it. Most people are (less informed) than us and that's not going to change. Our world is ruled by people who don't even understand what's happening to them, or why. Once you understand that, your mission is clear.
You already pasted this objection into your response to the grandparent comment, so I don't know what additional you expected to get here.
Google makes their money with local ads. It's not unreasonable to expect that they pay local tax rates for local ads in Taiwan bought by local Taiwan businesses and served from local Taiwan servers. That is entirely different from making your software in Redmond, WA, licensing it through a Nevada puppet corporation and then laundering the money through the double-Dutch or Blind Irish mechanisms of financial wizardry to make the profit happen offshore when that same software is sold from Khazakstan to Bangalore, and all the points between.
The problem is even deeper than that. Some of our best minds are working on it, but they have no solution yet.
This is just part of the campaign to tar Google with any brush they can. Read this.
We've been working around browser features for a long time. We started learning how with IE 3.0. The foibles of browsers being what they are to claim some criminal intent on the methods of site designers for minor privacy issues with an individual browser devolves into everybody involved in Internet technologies being sent to the Gulag. That's going to impede progress.
This is a fairly standard method. If Safari's design allows more disclosure than intended that's Safari's fault, not Google's. If this is not the intended functionality it's a browser bug and should be fixed.
And this is why you're the gadget guy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5puAN1PGQw
These companies all sell products with GPL software (Linux) in them. What part of the value provided is software and what is hardware is a subjective judgment with no basis in fact. Google's services run on GPL software so they're leveraging that to keep its costs down. They're leveraging Linux in Android to stay alive in the mobile market too. The rest of those companies ship hardware with Linux in it - and if didn't have Linux in it they would either have to pay more to replace it with something else and/or be slower to market, have a less satisfactory end user experience, have less control of the user experience, be unable to differentiate their product. IBM, Oracle and HP do sell a LOT of Linux systems. Dell less so. I'm no so sure what the prevalence of Linux is in Comcast's set-top DVR, but I'm pretty sure it's in there - but that's more of a lease than a sale. There are many, many more. I didn't mention Intel which is working on at least two Linux-based OSes that I know of. And Amazon and Rackspace, Box and Dropbox and Backblaze and Bluehost and all the other cloud folks of course, selling linux-based services of one sort or another.
Some of these companies approach Microsoft's market power individually, and together they dwarf it. Sure, none of them is exclusively software - but some might see that as an advantage in a world where we can so easily lose interest in one way of doing things. Microsoft isn't the 800lb gorilla any more, intimidating everybody on the field like they once were. More and more they're just a bully, standing alone on the soccer field yelling at the backs of all the folks who've decided not to play with them any more.
And coming back to the topic at hand, for now at least it seems Linux is essential to Microsoft's operations too.
That was to be expected.
With Microsoft fans this is always the way it is. What's the good version of Windows? The next one.
Google is also a multibillion dollar company, and they sell software under the GPL. In fact in terms of market cap they're pretty close to each other right now. I believe IBM, HP, Dell and Samsung could be on that list too. And Comcast, Oracle and Cisco too, I think. I'm sure there's more, but that should do.
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The results returned by Google searches are a document and are automatically copyrighted. They didn't pursue this, but that doesn't change the law.
It may, however, be handy in space. Like Planetary Resources is planning to do. Because for high data rate communications over long distances in space with low power it's pretty awesome.
And a screaming deal at only $28,000 for a pair.
They forgot to go after LG also, now that they're not selling Windows Phones.
Nokia also sold some patents to Sisvel to go patent trolling with. I thought I read they had several of these out there. So they can keep this up all day, suing the same people over and over. And Nokia isn't the only one. So the only way to win this is to just not ever pay the Dane.
Yeah. Nine whole lines out of 13 million.
I'm quite sure that in the better interest of Microsoft shareholders Microsoft will appeal this decision even unto the Supreme Court. And lose. But in the interim they will have made more money than they spent, because that's how they roll.