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Comment Per linked article, the domain had not expired (Score 1) 35

> According to the Open Data Córdoba group (which is dedicated to tracking expired Argentine domains) Google's domain had not expired and, in fact, the expiration date was in July. But the group too was unable to explain what had happened or why.

Comment Re: I wish (Score 1) 186

You earn a dollar. You pay tax on the earnings. You buy a medium potato with the remaining 70Â.

You want a big potato. You use your credit card. The bank pays the grocer a dollar and tells you âoeYou owe me a dollar.â

Then the bank develops an allergy to maple and runs away south, shouting âoeNever mind.â

You got $1.70 worth of potatoes for $1.00 work.

US legislators say âoethat makes no sense. You owe tax on the forgiven debt.â

Canada legislators say different.

Comment We eat our own (Score 4, Informative) 50

So, to the Red Hat employees reading this: thank you! Red Hat does great work for the world. We as a community also tend to undervalue a $1B/year publicly traded company with a large sales force out explaining to every potential enterprise customer that will listen the virtues of free software.

The Dev Suite thing is kinda cool. Not that I'd buy it :-), but interesting to know that option exists.

Comment Classic disruptive techonology problem (Score 5, Insightful) 309

Even though Kodak saw digital photography coming, the problem was Kodak's whole financial structure was tied to film, and digital technology was disruptive technology. They might have been able to sustain the brand by merging with or buying the right company at the right time (e.g. Canon), but most companies have a hard time dealing with technology shifts that vaporize their main profit center. It's not as simple as just knowing what the next trend is; it's figuring out how to gracefully wind down the existing cash cow while giving the new technology the management attention and resources it needs to thrive. Even then, there still ends up being a lot of pain because you can just put all of the same people you had producing film to work in a digital camera business.

Comment Webkit-based, too (and mod parent up) (Score 1) 182

Agreed, though I wouldn't go so far as to say that Google would be upset if Chrome marginalized Firefox through merit-based competition.

The main thing I would add is that it was only a matter of time before someone created a competitive Webkit-based browser for Windows, and there's no guarantee that whoever that was was going to be friendly to Google.

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