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Sure, but he was the team leader. I was part of a team that built autonomous vehicles too, but the fact that there were others involved doesn't stop me writing "built an autonomous vehicle" on my CV.
There was no team without him, period.
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- When they acquired my little project (back in 2008) my co-founder and I were told point blank that if we didn't sell to them at a price of their choosing they would just outright copy our product and steal our ideas and do it themselves and we'd get nothing. I don't even think they meant it as much as it was a divide-and-conquer negotiation tactic (which unfortunately worked since my co-founder started to panic aft…
"Do we want to build this or buy this" is a pretty typical decision at all large companies, no? Wouldn't it be supremely strange if Google acquired something without at least considering building it internally?
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Do you really think he should be in prison for intellectual property infringement ?
Martha Stewart went to jail for making ~$400,000 in insider trading, a far less serious offense.
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I'll bet if you asked most people what they would prefer less, getting beat up or losing $500 million, the would answer the latter.
Which distributed among all Google shareholders is $100 each?
There is also a supposed conversation between him and Larry Page before he left. From what I've read, Larry supposedly knew a lot about the circumstances of his leaving, and what transpired in that meeting supposedly will undermine Waymo's position. He's being deposed, but apparently Uber is only allowed to ask him one question, which is odd. Edit: downvoted as expected. I bet that 9 out of 10 people upvoting these s…
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We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14216420 and marked it off-topic.
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Uber has requested that Larry Page be deposed and they have questions they want to ask him under oath. That's fact, not hearsay. They clearly have questions the truth of which will weaken Waymo's position. Lawyers don't ask questions they don't already know the answer to. The only unknown is if Larry will lie under oath or be able to skillfully answer in a way that doesn't hurt Waymo's position.
Or Larry simply tells the truth and doesn't hurt Waymo's position. The bias is dripping off your lips.
Please don't comment uncivilly here.
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"Do we want to build this or buy this" is a pretty typical decision at all large companies, no? Wouldn't it be supremely strange if Google acquired something without at least considering building it internally?
There's a difference between internally weighing build-vs-buy and openly threatening a pair of hackers in a negotiation with a blatant rip-off.
The way I see it, even at Google, small M&A deals are just staffed by a bunch of aggro nerds who have a lot more "egoistic hot shot" than "civilized decorum" about them. It seems possible they were bluffing — getting organizational buy-in and staffing a small project at Google has relatively enormous overhead. So for tiny projects (Best response, I imagine, would be "ok, why don't you guys figure out how much that'll cost you and we'll circle back to talk numbers again. looking forward to it!"
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Yes. All very different from "car, house, boat".
The meaning of the word "property" extends beyond "car, house, boat".
RMS explains the difference and the intention behind the confusion well: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html