They cant rent it, or they would have to keep the prices the same. With "buying" they can lower the price later and screw existing customers. It feels a whole lot different to buy something and see the price go down than it does to pay higher rent than someone with the same toy.
I don't support it either way. Maybe we should be complaining about the cell phone towers and transmission infrastructure not being open instead.
You sound like an absolute moron. Although it is a perfectly human reaction to support the search engine where you rank higher, you need to get a clue. I am a professional SEO, and hundreds of my client sites rank higher in Bing and Yahoo than they do in Google. Search engines are designed for different reasons, and Google is optimized for making money. This means that the advertising on Google gets a lot of click fraud. This still makes money for Google, so what do you expect? The sites above you on Bing might just be there for different reasons.
Because their salary is $1 and they want to spend some money? If my salary was $1 and I had over a billion in stocks you best believe I'd be cashing some of it out....
Why don't we get real for a minute? If these guys were forced to live like they only earned $1 I would agree with you completely. They own the company you moron! They can pay themselves whatever they want without selling the stock. They can also buy anything they want in the name of Google and not pay any taxes on it.
Except they will be selling the shares over the coarse of 5 years...
And?... If they thought Google stock would be worth more in 5 years, why would they be making the decision and telling us about their plans to sell it now? 5 years is way longer than any insider transaction reporting requirements.
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