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Why does he need a great business perspective to spend something which is nowhere close to what companies using his hard work are earning?
by sumitviii 12y ago
Why does he need a great business perspective to spend something which is nowhere close to what companies using his hard work are earning?
- avn2109 12y agoThis. The article says Google and Facebook each gave him 50 big ones. Which != 0, but I can't help but thinking that's like .00001 seconds of Google profits, given to a project that is probably on the critical path of >50% of their business.
- tobinfricke 12y agoGoogle's profit was $13G in 2013, according to Wikipedia. Thus $50,000 amounts to about 2 minutes of their profit stream. You are off by seven orders of magnitude... More to the point, how do you figure that GPG is on the "critical path" of 50% of Google's business?
- Estragon 12y ago> More to the point, how do you figure that GPG is on the > "critical path" of 50% of Google's business? Anywhere they're using a debian-based linux distribution, they're using gpg in the package management.
- tobinfricke 12y agoThat's true, but it says nothing about how difficult it would be to replace.
- Estragon 12y agoDo you have any idea what be involved in that replacement?