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I think the news is that he’s dropping his lawsuit, and the emails (which are old news in the tech press) are the presumed reason he’s dropping the lawsuit.
I think the news is that he’s dropping his lawsuit, and the emails (which are old news in the tech press) are the presumed reason he’s dropping the lawsuit.
I know it’s not fair, but that’s how I feel about nepo-babies.
Well, not touching your partner is one way to ensure nobody ends up pregnant, I guess.
20 years ago, the big question VCs were asking their startups was, “How do we convince Microsoft to buy this company?” Simpler times, back then.
If they had a couple of unbeatable patents that they just couldn’t figure out how to turn into products, that’s almost forgivable – you blew your launch, so you sell out to a company who has the resources to make your ideas into something the public will buy. But as far as I can tell, these guys don’t really have any IP worth buying them out for.
I’m sure it’ll be fine… oh, totally unrelated: has any one been on Usenet lately?
“If I go home, then I won’t have to worry about this.”
Later…
“You left early last night, everyone wondered where you were!”
This is going to be one tough RMA…
For real, I’d love to have a barebones phone.
Especially if you use coprolite.
A real cut & horse-paste solution.
Based on the prices I looked up you could feed everyone on Earth 1,800 kcal of potatoes for one day for around 40 billion USD. So… lets do it! Global spud day! Don’t ask me where to get a pot that big for boiling all them taters though.
But who will the VPs yell at? It’s no fun bitching out a robot.
I’m guessing it’s not your rank-and-file type “people”.
That’s ok, I’ll just take the rocket and the men, then.
No problem, I just need a rocket, 7.2 x 10^48 gallons of blue dye, and ten reliable men.
I asked an executive this very question, and he said that the board was getting pressure from stock-holders to reduce headcounts, and justifying that pressure by pointing to other large companies who had already undertaken massive layoffs, and the resulting rise in their stock prices. In this way layoffs become a game of follow the leader – or like a contagion. “Google just fired a third of their workforce, why are we doing that? We should do what they did, look how successful they are.”
That, or threaten to nationalize their industry. Corporations *hate * that.
“My god! What did you get?”
“Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader.”