Like with re-surfacing the Reflecting Pool, Trump will "know a guy, that's done work for him" - that he'll later say he's never heard of - and it will end up being be a no-bid contract for $35M, that will end up actually being a large multiple of that, which we find out from a reporter who Trump will call treasonous and/or stupid - for pointing out inconvenient facts/truth. In any case, just another avenue for corruption, at our expense. /s

"For all who draw the sword will die by the sword."

This wasnt a lawsuit for control. It was a lawsuit to force profits back to the nonprofit

B..b..but this is ${prior_art} using the Internet!

That probably would have been a really hard sell to Congress, even a Republican-controlled one.

So sad Elon missed out on getting rich. :-) More seriously, how much more money does Elon need? /s

Unfortunately, those rules won't really matter while the guy at the top rigs things in favor of "friends" (meaning sycophants). Yes, Elon lost in court, but he's got two and a half more years and a ton of "flatter the king" money to change things in his favor. Also unfortunately, our current business and political climates are just cults of personality where money gets you everywhere. Those rules are also about to get skewed even more by the $1.7 billion slush fund the IRS is setting up for Trump, for dropping his bogus, and probably illegal, lawsuit against himself, so he can pay people he thinks were wronged under Biden, like the Jan 6th insurrectionists.

It is called summary judgement, and I honestly thought that was good news that it went to trial, and the court could find justification to stop business in America from being allowed to steal non-profits. I guess I was wrong. This will only make things worse in the long run.

This is a civil trial, not a criminal trial. There is no "jeopardy" there is no double jeopardy. This is a civil suit.

I hate seeing seemingly intelligent people view this as "I hate that business guy more than the other business guy", as opposed to "What rules should American business have to operate under".

Why does this have to be an ad hominem attack? Honestly I think the right thing to have done is to revert OpenAI back into a pure non-profit, with a proper governance board. Hating Elon might be fun, but it's blinding to what we all just cheered: The ability for business people to start non-profits and pivot once the non-profit advantages have borne fruit. Non-profits get special pricing for most of the services they use, purchase hardware at discounts, get tax deductible donations from their "founders", and make a healthy business, and decide at the 11th hour to convert to profit, and pillage all the coffers in stock buybacks and distributions. This is not wise.

As a comedian said: "Reparations? From the U.S.? They need to get in line." :-)

Noting that Trump has a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School of Finance and Commerce (name when he graduated).

(And he *still* claims exporters pay his tariffs, which are import taxes.)

That sounds like insider trading. :-)

I spent about half my career as a software engineer and half as a systems administrator, sometimes overlapping, both on everything from a PC to Cray-2, and never really thought a Master's degree would help with what I did day to day - or, at least, not for the extra effort and expense. I had co-workers with Master's who got a few tasks that exercised that extra education, but those didn't really interest me that much and, because of my longer experience over a wider area, I earned the same if not more than they did anyway. I like working on hard, or "impossible", practical problems that usually required detailed working experience over a wide number of systems and programming languages, as well as porting scripts and programs, historically between combinations of Unix, Linux and Windows, and a Master's won't really help with any of that.

Same reason we gave Israel nukes. Shall we take those back as well?