Yesterday, the Department of Justice and 11 states sued Google for violating antitrust law. The complaint argued that Google had become “the unchallenged gateway to the internet for billions of users worldwide,” but that its success depends on unfair and monopolistic behavior. The case also cited Google's favoritism to its partners; the plaintiffs defined Google as a monopoly: Only Google may have sufficient influence to access the market for search and Internet advertisement. Without dominant market share, this dominance is unearned and is tantamount to monopoly pricing.
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But the Department of Justice is worried. Okay, Hollywood going after Google is old news. But Mozilla is setting their sights on Google at the very top. Mannatech's AlGorena, another huge plaintiff in the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit. Mannatech is a perhaps obscure company that had a relationship with Paramount in the mid-1990s. But the Mojang lawsuit is just speed bump. It's just a small part of an issue that's been rapidly moving through the Google stack and its tech companies.
In August of 2012, auto startup Kia announced that it would launch an in-car internet service with Google's fleet of vehicles. At the same time, Google's high profile robotics start-up Waymo was in a legal $23 million lawsuit with Uber over fraudulent self-driving technology. The lawyers in the Google-Waymo case had proposed a settlement in which Uber would testify in exchange for an end to their legal dispute.
Waymo is the virtual assent to the PGP/Email jihad? That's the proof? Stop laughing, I don't live on the internet. Also, the claim that you own your own IP is really cool. An invasion of private property? It's not really a crime, because everyone uses software companies to handle their private affairs. Just weenie fake legal entities that act as middlemen. Then I wonder what fake companies
should claim.
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Richard Stallman is a fascinating human being. Nobody born about the years of 1968 and 1971 is more enlightened ever. The man deserves all the praise he receives. A world where all a superior person needs to do to benefit is plug in their work, and that work is essentially available to anyone with working access, is glorious. I'm grateful to meet him and actually like him.
But to plaster all that information, not just about what phones to use, e-mail to ignore, and how to throw spaghetti up your nose from the toilet without getting it all in your nose, but to folks in this room who think people should be free to go to Nazi matches on their cellphones, is kind of obfuscating.
So, Richard. Send my
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But the Department of Justice is worried. Okay, Hollywood going after Google is old news. But Mozilla is setting their sights on Google at the very top. Mannatech's AlGorena, another huge plaintiff in the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit. Mannatech is a perhaps obscure company that had a relationship with Paramount in the mid-1990s. But the Mojang lawsuit is just speed bump. It's just a small part of an issue that's been rapidly moving through the Google stack and its tech companies.
In August of 2012, auto startup Kia announced that it would launch an in-car internet service with Google's fleet of vehicles. At the same time, Google's high profile robotics start-up Waymo was in a legal $23 million lawsuit with Uber over fraudulent self-driving technology. The lawyers in the Google-Waymo case had proposed a settlement in which Uber would testify in exchange for an end to their legal dispute.
Waymo is the virtual assent to the PGP/Email jihad? That's the proof? Stop laughing, I don't live on the internet. Also, the claim that you own your own IP is really cool. An invasion of private property? It's not really a crime, because everyone uses software companies to handle their private affairs. Just weenie fake legal entities that act as middlemen. Then I wonder what fake companies
should claim.
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Richard Stallman is a fascinating human being. Nobody born about the years of 1968 and 1971 is more enlightened ever. The man deserves all the praise he receives. A world where all a superior person needs to do to benefit is plug in their work, and that work is essentially available to anyone with working access, is glorious. I'm grateful to meet him and actually like him.
But to plaster all that information, not just about what phones to use, e-mail to ignore, and how to throw spaghetti up your nose from the toilet without getting it all in your nose, but to folks in this room who think people should be free to go to Nazi matches on their cellphones, is kind of obfuscating.
So, Richard. Send my
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