Peer review is not only the bit the journals do. The real exchange of ideas starts after the publication. In fact if nothing published was ever improved on, science would stop and become something dogmatic and immutable of no particular value.

£800 million over a 10 year period.

That used to be the norm in the EU as well. Fortunately the EU-directives since the early nineties have fixed that. Currently there are no relevant rights of use left.

I think the IBM OSS group is now called Red Hat Inc

I recognize a few that still have some relevance in HPC. In fact without the SGI effort spent on NUMA, bigmem and scalabilty support for Linux the current top-500-by-OS list would look completely different.
https://www.top500.org/statistics/list/

Perhaps the reason is that on-line access is better? This CCSU statistic suggests you may just not be very good at selling obsolescent technology.
http://www.ccsu.edu/wmln/rank....

Exactly that, one company selling something it doesn't own to another company on false pretenses. As far as I can see it's more an implementation of the electric monk https://www.urbandictionary.co... for advertisement than a case of fraud.

Except, the context is a French proposal to create a federal income tax for Europe. From the perspective of the proponents, who really want to turn the EU into a federation, it is understandable. Of course most Europeans are not really waiting for our own version of the IRS.

Correct, and it has been part of the 'active measures' for a long time:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world...
It will probably not go away, and neither will the accusations against Facebook, as they are in the interest of the business model. FB will gladly 'admit' to the effectiveness of their advertising products in the media.

It will be interesting to see. Apparently google estimates to earn up to 40$ per device from their app platform. Other manufacturers can now compete on the software offering.

As a parent, I was more worried about the stifling of the children in that statement. But I suppose we should be grateful that it is not unnecessary.

Interesting thought, especially if the zero plastic containing anonymous French sample was from the market leader, because that comes in cardboard boxes.

Hm, reading the FA, that's a novel concept.

Probably not coincidentally: I recently read a news item that Alibaba plans to open a new distrition center in Europe. Alledgedly to reduce shipping times..

I recommend checking if the country you plan to use the phone in has an extradition treaty with the US or China. As far as I can see the odds are 100 to 40. Not great in either case.