I would have thought tackling pirates could be best handled by placing trained security personal on targeted ships in the affected zones, argh me hearty.
When it comes to copyright infringement, your content you choose, your customer will then make a choice. The most important thing is to make very, very clear your system to the customer and do not put the customers equipment at risk, nor force changes of use upon the customer.
The best method is to reward validated registered users in some manner. Obviously additional content can be copied and distributed, so limited value there. So likely the best bet is accumulative discounts, the more you buy the bigger the discounts build. Treat long term repeat buyers with the same regard that old brick and mortar stores used to. So your content might not be quite as good but it is good enough and they prefer dealing with you.
You really have to ignore people who copy and can't afford to buy because one day when they can afford to buy the most likely will, so no real immediate lose but a long term potential loss. You might as well ignore the right wing can already afford it but are just born too greedy and selfish, reacting to them, always a minority will simply damage the relationship between you and the majority of your customers. Of course if you are a greedy and selfish right wing freak you will simply believe everyone is like you, this will lead to confusion and chaos and end up pissing off most of your customers.
In the eyes of the law and under the requirements of justice prove it, until then they are innocent and only suspects. So either the Geneva Convention or the rule of law apply, take your pick or declare yourself the terrorist and criminal.
In any cyber attack the results in loss of life, first up those responsible for security should be audited and punished if they failed.
Question that need to be asked, did it need to be connected to the internet, was it effectively isolated, how rapidly was an incursion detected and was proper security in place. For high security system things like honey pots should be in place as the primary defence because they can most effectively lead to counter measures being applied, as attacks can be detected within seconds of being initiated.
All that is happening is the CIA's out of control for profit private contractor behaviour with billions disappearing is slowly clamped down and operations handed over to the Pentagon so the US government can pretend what happened under the CIA never happened. The Pentagon will now generate tons upon tons of evidence, approvals, validations, forms at al to bury anything that might leak out. Private contractors under the CIA proved to be a horrendous debacle basically the establishment of an intelligence operation whose only true function was the justification of the intelligence program and spending billions of dollars so that the bulk of it could be creamed off by corrupt contractors, government administrators and politicians.
The difference is homo sapiens could see beyond their own hamlet, to surrounding hamlets and the image of a tribe gained dominance over just the hamlet. Thus several hamlets hunting parties could form together to create a war party and this war party could specifically target and eliminate threats to all the hamlets that formed the tribe. So whilst less physically able individually they were able to attack with superior number and over an extended time, beyond normal hunting patterns.
Modern day aboriginal became the victims of psychopathic greed, the concerted effort of genocide in order to seize territory not for the benefit of the group but for the benefit of specific individuals. The group in fact sacrificed many of their own in the attempt to feed the insatiable greed of those individuals. This reaches as far back as psychopath originally gaining control tribes and calling themselves chiefs and kings and enforcing it by torturing to death any that disagreed.
Psychopaths generally 1% of the population (generally 15% of the prison population globally), now that's whole of them of varying intellects and capabilities and their ain't no country in the world that escapes their predations. No need to point at one countries people being worse or better than another countries people, more realistically just look at how solidly the psychopaths at the top have locked in their power and control and how great the resistance to their activity is in the rest of the population and in their system of justice. Global corruption scales seem to be a pretty solid measure of where psychopaths have the greatest dominance, the more corrupt the greater the influence of psychopaths and that is a straight across all races genetic defect nothing more and nothing less.
M$ did it to itself. When Ballmer and co decided it was OK to attempt to cripple the career of anyone who decided upon sound commercial decisions to use alternate open source operating system to be called religious zealots, communists in league with terrorists and organised criminals seeking to destroy companies and spread viruses. This M$ did in all seriousness spreading that attack against former and continuing customers in every venue M$ had access to, newspapers, magazines, radio, televisions, online and via lobbyists in government.
So you can forget the poor little M$ so victimised right there. They are a bunch of psychopath corporate fuckups who thought it was A OK to attempt to destroy people in order to continue the monopoly multi-billion profits, so when it comes to real people versus the psychopath corporation, FUCK M$.
Perhaps that is a little closer to reality. Neanderthals included homo sapiens in their dietary regime and homo sapiens where far more effective at mass retaliatory revenge attacks.
So the mass homo sapiens opposition to cannibalism could stem from a history of being preyed upon by Neanderthals and their larger war party attacks against those that would kill and eat them.
Any smart phone has a key feature over a dedicated camera, you don't have to carry the dedicated camera as well. As such habits form, and when you are able to transfer images from 'ANDROID' device to 'ANDROID' so readily (caps to make up for the blatant Apple Ad oh so lame), not only yours but other people's, why bother carrying a camera as well unless you are a photography or video geek.
Basically most users habitualise to photo and video quality of a typical smart phone and no longer see the need to carry around an additional device. Especially now days when the highest quality smart phones are more impact resistant and waterproof (1m depth ain't quite enough 3m would be better). A lot of it is also about I want it now, take the photo/video, appreciate it now and share it now.
So smartphone versus camera is not a form factor competition it is I am already carrying the smart phone and that will not change but I must 'Pay For' and carry the camera 'As Well' so am I that much into photography and video.
As for other electronic device, let's check the big fails, electronically controlled air-conditioning in most regions a must, access controls would be nice, electronically controlled led lighting, an exercise device of some description walker/elliptical, solar panels and battery back up and, a much bigger display device to provide scenery. Not to forget an EV car and charging point. Why does it seem like tech writing is only a part time thing for this guy who doesn't really seem to be all that much into tech.
Especially when the opposing players are in the mood for counter strike and half of home team support is long gone and the other half, well, it has very large vested financial interests in the counterstrike side and is sure to be looking for a way to wangle this into a big advantage. Gain public prestige as a global diplomatic player who finally resolved the issue and reunited a country with only limited conflict.
You have to consider that for other countries M$ is a dead loss, tons of money going out with no return. Pushing FOSS means that if an offshot of a major campaign contributing company sets up in that market you can readily funnel money to them and look really good in the polls when doing so. Basically FOSS in also going to be a double plus win for pollies.
Companies will simply wise up and shift to countries like Australia where loser pays and losing one case can set powerful precedents and barretry laws can come into pay, not only does loser pay but they can be sued for damages and penalties. Quite simply if you are becoming the target for bullshit lawsuits remaining head quartered in the US is crazy and a shift to Australia makes legal sense.
Google is responsible for the wildly out of control squatting, it is their responsibility to clean up their act or start facing some legislative changes about the responsibility of advertisers.
All of it is funded by ill managed google advertising, crappy pseudo search web site after pseudo search web site full of google paid for clicks. Millions of shitty pointless web sites funded by google advertising greed to the annoyance of hundreds of millions of web users.
Downstream is truly the wrong word. The highest cost of desalination is, everywhere you want to use the water is going to be 'upstream' from it source. Most fresh water is used downstream from it's source less or no expensive pumping. Getting that water uphill is the real cost, pumping tons and tons of it, many kilometres inland and many hundreds of even thousands of metres uphill is the real cost problem. Cheap energy produces cheap water and low cost nuclear is still the best interim goal to producing lots and lots of potable water where it is required at a low price (fresh is a really a bad word to use with regards to water quality).
It's called the primaries, only about 10% of Americans eligible participate, the rest are too lazy and stupid to do anything about the government being taken over by corporations for the benefit of corporations. Want better candidates that start working to get better candidates.
WTF is this traitors bullshit? People are free to make choices. Linux was all about choice, for those that used it and for those that created. The idea that some how users end up being traitors by using what ever OS suits them for what ever application is just crazy irrational stuff. Even as a grump old penguinista I don't betray anything by playing games on a windows system or dual boot, meh, never bothered with Apple never had a need for it but should I have, I would have freely chosen to do so. FOSS was clearly all about providing choice when closed source propriety systems were all about shutting it down and locking you in. Use, don't use, buy, don't by, you are never a betrayer or traitor when you choose which soft ware you're going to use, that kind of thinking is just plain crazy and the kind of bullshit typical marketdroids come up with all of the time, fuck em.
Likely there is a whole lot of outsourcing going on. You can bet those that are whinging are those involved in projects with no money making opportunities. So the government does the hack and 'er' 'um' drops the project and 'er' 'um' private contractors pick up the proceeds but of course the blame stays with the government.
You can imagine the problems this will create all over the world, the level of out of control corruption it will inevitably create. Private theft facilitated by government penetration, the modern day digital privateer.
So legalised theft from private banks simply because they are based in a targeted country. Industrial espionage sold on the open market, I wonder readily they will sell it to competitors located in the same country. Personal revenge, for profit blackmail and extortion and, political machinations. How much of it will they try to blame on 'Anonymous' and how many dupes will they create year in and year out to take the blame for everything? How often will those cyber weapons be turned against those countries that created them by the for profit contractors?
It seems lot of customers who wrote 1 star were also getting pretty offended when the 5 star (one time only reviewers) also included personal attacks against the 1 star reviewers many of whom are an "Amazon Verified Purchase", this pushed many of them into demanding a refunding.
Sounds more like a Marissa Mayer knee jerk reaction and power play. Gees, now doesn't the story just keep changing. One minute it's because unproductive staff don't spend enough time in corridors and tea rooms chatting together and the next because Yahoo was losing too many telecommuting staff in the wilds of the burbs, never to be seen again.
One stupid unthinking memo and the PR and marketing staff will now be busy for months making up story after story about why it was down and of course inevitably how effective it has been, the truth about the damage will of course leak out and this idiotic event will just be another nail in the coffin of the hide behind others career of Marissa Mayer. Peter principle at work.
Of course the first excuse had to be the silliest, we need to cancel telecommuting because we need all the staff chatting in the hallways of Yahoo about new ideas because 'er' 'um' I have none, youch (some people should just stop and think before making public announcements). Of course admitting they were completely incompetent at managing telecommuting one of the core skills expected of major internet companies, well they ain't much better.
Now that's a lie. All those people out there protesting the wars, protesting the drone strikes and protesting an out of control military industrial complex, are still out there. They are simply being completely ignored by mass media. There is also of course no support by any political party to organise mass action which can force public recognition.
So it is not on of partisan politics. It is lack of political support and corporate media at it finest 'er' worst. All the protesters are still the but there are no mass actions, as there is no supportive political organisation to drive them.
I am not speaking of the character of Miguel who simply and clearly betrayed himself. I am speaking of the principles of free open source software. The only real way of betraying it would be to purpose fully insert copyrighted code in it, virus ridden code or simply code designed to perform badly. Beyond that you contribute as much or as little as you feel like. You work for Apple or M$ or any one else as motivates you and either continue or stop contributing, freedom your choice. As people leave open source, new people enter. FOSS is very much a proving ground for the skill sets of a software professional, it is not a trap like closed source proprietary code which steals your work without recognition and tries to permanently claim rights over your creativity.
Statistics. Tens of thousands of ducks and it's a substantial portion of a flock of ducks that causes the problems. Hmm, the rank exaggeration by you and others certainly seems to suggest a false flag event to clamp down on camera fitted drones. Can't have the population spying on the spies, can't be watching the man out of control and abusing their privileges. I smell a complete ban of non-law enforcement drones in all metropolitan areas.
Of course never to forget FOSS is free open source software, not indentured slavery. Richard Stallman in this case is making an over reach to say Migual betrayed open source software. When it comes to open source software you contribute as much as you choose only for so long as you choose, whether it's code, support, service or promotion. Miguel de Icaza is free to support any software he chooses, he is free to drop FOSS at any time and pick it up again. The only reality is the perceived marketing benefit in the public switch diminishes pretty quickly because after all it is pretty meaningless. So the Apple swap is pretty much a storm in a tea cup and after Apple there are plenty of Companies out of China that would be looking for some extra marketing, low budget of course.
In the end it all boils down to what kind of company you are. If you are an internet company selling technological solutions and you public fail at telecommuting something you should be logically selling to others, well, then you are public incompetent and not to be relied upon for anything. M$ always talked about eating it's own dogfood for good reason, failure to do so cripples your marketing.
So the global message released by Yahoo, 'WE ARE INCOMPETENT AT TELECOMMUTING" screamed loud and clear to all their competitors and customers. Telecommuting was one of the basic productivity enhancements promised by the internet. There is no excuse for this decision or the way it was handled, Marissa Meyer is either an idiot or a Google poison pill.
Yahoo is meant to be selling telecommuting to other companies as well as the establishment and long term management of telecommuting solutions, seriously WTF?
Get real his next move will be to whom ever pays him the most. Seriously if you don't think this is about cash then you are foolish. His wife likely simply demands to be kept in a style that requires Migual becomes a marketing tool for whom ever pays him the most. His income generating potential with M$ has likely dried up, milked for all it was worth and so the shift to Apple. After that, obscurity, such is life.
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I would have thought tackling pirates could be best handled by placing trained security personal on targeted ships in the affected zones, argh me hearty.
When it comes to copyright infringement, your content you choose, your customer will then make a choice. The most important thing is to make very, very clear your system to the customer and do not put the customers equipment at risk, nor force changes of use upon the customer.
The best method is to reward validated registered users in some manner. Obviously additional content can be copied and distributed, so limited value there. So likely the best bet is accumulative discounts, the more you buy the bigger the discounts build. Treat long term repeat buyers with the same regard that old brick and mortar stores used to. So your content might not be quite as good but it is good enough and they prefer dealing with you.
You really have to ignore people who copy and can't afford to buy because one day when they can afford to buy the most likely will, so no real immediate lose but a long term potential loss. You might as well ignore the right wing can already afford it but are just born too greedy and selfish, reacting to them, always a minority will simply damage the relationship between you and the majority of your customers. Of course if you are a greedy and selfish right wing freak you will simply believe everyone is like you, this will lead to confusion and chaos and end up pissing off most of your customers.
In the eyes of the law and under the requirements of justice prove it, until then they are innocent and only suspects. So either the Geneva Convention or the rule of law apply, take your pick or declare yourself the terrorist and criminal.
In any cyber attack the results in loss of life, first up those responsible for security should be audited and punished if they failed. Question that need to be asked, did it need to be connected to the internet, was it effectively isolated, how rapidly was an incursion detected and was proper security in place. For high security system things like honey pots should be in place as the primary defence because they can most effectively lead to counter measures being applied, as attacks can be detected within seconds of being initiated.
All that is happening is the CIA's out of control for profit private contractor behaviour with billions disappearing is slowly clamped down and operations handed over to the Pentagon so the US government can pretend what happened under the CIA never happened. The Pentagon will now generate tons upon tons of evidence, approvals, validations, forms at al to bury anything that might leak out. Private contractors under the CIA proved to be a horrendous debacle basically the establishment of an intelligence operation whose only true function was the justification of the intelligence program and spending billions of dollars so that the bulk of it could be creamed off by corrupt contractors, government administrators and politicians.
The difference is homo sapiens could see beyond their own hamlet, to surrounding hamlets and the image of a tribe gained dominance over just the hamlet. Thus several hamlets hunting parties could form together to create a war party and this war party could specifically target and eliminate threats to all the hamlets that formed the tribe. So whilst less physically able individually they were able to attack with superior number and over an extended time, beyond normal hunting patterns.
Modern day aboriginal became the victims of psychopathic greed, the concerted effort of genocide in order to seize territory not for the benefit of the group but for the benefit of specific individuals. The group in fact sacrificed many of their own in the attempt to feed the insatiable greed of those individuals. This reaches as far back as psychopath originally gaining control tribes and calling themselves chiefs and kings and enforcing it by torturing to death any that disagreed.
Psychopaths generally 1% of the population (generally 15% of the prison population globally), now that's whole of them of varying intellects and capabilities and their ain't no country in the world that escapes their predations. No need to point at one countries people being worse or better than another countries people, more realistically just look at how solidly the psychopaths at the top have locked in their power and control and how great the resistance to their activity is in the rest of the population and in their system of justice. Global corruption scales seem to be a pretty solid measure of where psychopaths have the greatest dominance, the more corrupt the greater the influence of psychopaths and that is a straight across all races genetic defect nothing more and nothing less.
M$ did it to itself. When Ballmer and co decided it was OK to attempt to cripple the career of anyone who decided upon sound commercial decisions to use alternate open source operating system to be called religious zealots, communists in league with terrorists and organised criminals seeking to destroy companies and spread viruses. This M$ did in all seriousness spreading that attack against former and continuing customers in every venue M$ had access to, newspapers, magazines, radio, televisions, online and via lobbyists in government.
So you can forget the poor little M$ so victimised right there. They are a bunch of psychopath corporate fuckups who thought it was A OK to attempt to destroy people in order to continue the monopoly multi-billion profits, so when it comes to real people versus the psychopath corporation, FUCK M$.
Perhaps that is a little closer to reality. Neanderthals included homo sapiens in their dietary regime and homo sapiens where far more effective at mass retaliatory revenge attacks. So the mass homo sapiens opposition to cannibalism could stem from a history of being preyed upon by Neanderthals and their larger war party attacks against those that would kill and eat them.
Any smart phone has a key feature over a dedicated camera, you don't have to carry the dedicated camera as well. As such habits form, and when you are able to transfer images from 'ANDROID' device to 'ANDROID' so readily (caps to make up for the blatant Apple Ad oh so lame), not only yours but other people's, why bother carrying a camera as well unless you are a photography or video geek.
Basically most users habitualise to photo and video quality of a typical smart phone and no longer see the need to carry around an additional device. Especially now days when the highest quality smart phones are more impact resistant and waterproof (1m depth ain't quite enough 3m would be better). A lot of it is also about I want it now, take the photo/video, appreciate it now and share it now.
So smartphone versus camera is not a form factor competition it is I am already carrying the smart phone and that will not change but I must 'Pay For' and carry the camera 'As Well' so am I that much into photography and video.
As for other electronic device, let's check the big fails, electronically controlled air-conditioning in most regions a must, access controls would be nice, electronically controlled led lighting, an exercise device of some description walker/elliptical, solar panels and battery back up and, a much bigger display device to provide scenery. Not to forget an EV car and charging point. Why does it seem like tech writing is only a part time thing for this guy who doesn't really seem to be all that much into tech.
Especially when the opposing players are in the mood for counter strike and half of home team support is long gone and the other half, well, it has very large vested financial interests in the counterstrike side and is sure to be looking for a way to wangle this into a big advantage. Gain public prestige as a global diplomatic player who finally resolved the issue and reunited a country with only limited conflict.
You have to consider that for other countries M$ is a dead loss, tons of money going out with no return. Pushing FOSS means that if an offshot of a major campaign contributing company sets up in that market you can readily funnel money to them and look really good in the polls when doing so. Basically FOSS in also going to be a double plus win for pollies.
Companies will simply wise up and shift to countries like Australia where loser pays and losing one case can set powerful precedents and barretry laws can come into pay, not only does loser pay but they can be sued for damages and penalties. Quite simply if you are becoming the target for bullshit lawsuits remaining head quartered in the US is crazy and a shift to Australia makes legal sense.
Google is responsible for the wildly out of control squatting, it is their responsibility to clean up their act or start facing some legislative changes about the responsibility of advertisers.
All of it is funded by ill managed google advertising, crappy pseudo search web site after pseudo search web site full of google paid for clicks. Millions of shitty pointless web sites funded by google advertising greed to the annoyance of hundreds of millions of web users.
Downstream is truly the wrong word. The highest cost of desalination is, everywhere you want to use the water is going to be 'upstream' from it source. Most fresh water is used downstream from it's source less or no expensive pumping. Getting that water uphill is the real cost, pumping tons and tons of it, many kilometres inland and many hundreds of even thousands of metres uphill is the real cost problem. Cheap energy produces cheap water and low cost nuclear is still the best interim goal to producing lots and lots of potable water where it is required at a low price (fresh is a really a bad word to use with regards to water quality).
It's called the primaries, only about 10% of Americans eligible participate, the rest are too lazy and stupid to do anything about the government being taken over by corporations for the benefit of corporations. Want better candidates that start working to get better candidates.
WTF is this traitors bullshit? People are free to make choices. Linux was all about choice, for those that used it and for those that created. The idea that some how users end up being traitors by using what ever OS suits them for what ever application is just crazy irrational stuff. Even as a grump old penguinista I don't betray anything by playing games on a windows system or dual boot, meh, never bothered with Apple never had a need for it but should I have, I would have freely chosen to do so. FOSS was clearly all about providing choice when closed source propriety systems were all about shutting it down and locking you in. Use, don't use, buy, don't by, you are never a betrayer or traitor when you choose which soft ware you're going to use, that kind of thinking is just plain crazy and the kind of bullshit typical marketdroids come up with all of the time, fuck em.
Likely there is a whole lot of outsourcing going on. You can bet those that are whinging are those involved in projects with no money making opportunities. So the government does the hack and 'er' 'um' drops the project and 'er' 'um' private contractors pick up the proceeds but of course the blame stays with the government.
You can imagine the problems this will create all over the world, the level of out of control corruption it will inevitably create. Private theft facilitated by government penetration, the modern day digital privateer.
So legalised theft from private banks simply because they are based in a targeted country. Industrial espionage sold on the open market, I wonder readily they will sell it to competitors located in the same country. Personal revenge, for profit blackmail and extortion and, political machinations. How much of it will they try to blame on 'Anonymous' and how many dupes will they create year in and year out to take the blame for everything? How often will those cyber weapons be turned against those countries that created them by the for profit contractors?
It seems lot of customers who wrote 1 star were also getting pretty offended when the 5 star (one time only reviewers) also included personal attacks against the 1 star reviewers many of whom are an "Amazon Verified Purchase", this pushed many of them into demanding a refunding.
Sounds more like a Marissa Mayer knee jerk reaction and power play. Gees, now doesn't the story just keep changing. One minute it's because unproductive staff don't spend enough time in corridors and tea rooms chatting together and the next because Yahoo was losing too many telecommuting staff in the wilds of the burbs, never to be seen again.
One stupid unthinking memo and the PR and marketing staff will now be busy for months making up story after story about why it was down and of course inevitably how effective it has been, the truth about the damage will of course leak out and this idiotic event will just be another nail in the coffin of the hide behind others career of Marissa Mayer. Peter principle at work.
Of course the first excuse had to be the silliest, we need to cancel telecommuting because we need all the staff chatting in the hallways of Yahoo about new ideas because 'er' 'um' I have none, youch (some people should just stop and think before making public announcements). Of course admitting they were completely incompetent at managing telecommuting one of the core skills expected of major internet companies, well they ain't much better.
Now that's a lie. All those people out there protesting the wars, protesting the drone strikes and protesting an out of control military industrial complex, are still out there. They are simply being completely ignored by mass media. There is also of course no support by any political party to organise mass action which can force public recognition.
So it is not on of partisan politics. It is lack of political support and corporate media at it finest 'er' worst. All the protesters are still the but there are no mass actions, as there is no supportive political organisation to drive them.
I am not speaking of the character of Miguel who simply and clearly betrayed himself. I am speaking of the principles of free open source software. The only real way of betraying it would be to purpose fully insert copyrighted code in it, virus ridden code or simply code designed to perform badly. Beyond that you contribute as much or as little as you feel like. You work for Apple or M$ or any one else as motivates you and either continue or stop contributing, freedom your choice. As people leave open source, new people enter. FOSS is very much a proving ground for the skill sets of a software professional, it is not a trap like closed source proprietary code which steals your work without recognition and tries to permanently claim rights over your creativity.
Statistics. Tens of thousands of ducks and it's a substantial portion of a flock of ducks that causes the problems. Hmm, the rank exaggeration by you and others certainly seems to suggest a false flag event to clamp down on camera fitted drones. Can't have the population spying on the spies, can't be watching the man out of control and abusing their privileges. I smell a complete ban of non-law enforcement drones in all metropolitan areas.
Of course never to forget FOSS is free open source software, not indentured slavery. Richard Stallman in this case is making an over reach to say Migual betrayed open source software. When it comes to open source software you contribute as much as you choose only for so long as you choose, whether it's code, support, service or promotion. Miguel de Icaza is free to support any software he chooses, he is free to drop FOSS at any time and pick it up again. The only reality is the perceived marketing benefit in the public switch diminishes pretty quickly because after all it is pretty meaningless. So the Apple swap is pretty much a storm in a tea cup and after Apple there are plenty of Companies out of China that would be looking for some extra marketing, low budget of course.
In the end it all boils down to what kind of company you are. If you are an internet company selling technological solutions and you public fail at telecommuting something you should be logically selling to others, well, then you are public incompetent and not to be relied upon for anything. M$ always talked about eating it's own dogfood for good reason, failure to do so cripples your marketing.
So the global message released by Yahoo, 'WE ARE INCOMPETENT AT TELECOMMUTING" screamed loud and clear to all their competitors and customers. Telecommuting was one of the basic productivity enhancements promised by the internet. There is no excuse for this decision or the way it was handled, Marissa Meyer is either an idiot or a Google poison pill.
Yahoo is meant to be selling telecommuting to other companies as well as the establishment and long term management of telecommuting solutions, seriously WTF?
Get real his next move will be to whom ever pays him the most. Seriously if you don't think this is about cash then you are foolish. His wife likely simply demands to be kept in a style that requires Migual becomes a marketing tool for whom ever pays him the most. His income generating potential with M$ has likely dried up, milked for all it was worth and so the shift to Apple. After that, obscurity, such is life.