It’s like the beginning of commercialization of the government. I guess that’s why it has taken so long for Obama to make a decision on this.

Both Govt and Steve Gods love super control, irrespective of privacy.

Don’t even talk about open source, you are not going to get an software that can directly interface FBI wiretaps

Congress writes laws. Same old idiots. Same corruption.

Notice the pork in the bills? Pretty hard to change the way that Congress works from the Executive branch.

That was the past (long long time ago in the 1970s), not the present. He’s been out of R&D for so long so his knowledge is not up to date (ie, rusty).

They both would try their best to have their voice heard, I wonder who would Obama actually listen too…good luck!

http://www.livbit.com

I’ve already set myself a reminder to come back here in 18 months and laugh in your face. Have you ever left a thoughtful, reasoned comment on TC? I haven’t yet seen one.

F*ck, and indeed, off!

After graduating from Yorktown High School (Virginia),[8] Schmidt attended Princeton University where he earned a BSEE in 1976.[9] At the University of California, Berkeley, he earned an MS in 1979, for designing and implementing a network linking the campus computer center, the CS and the EECS departments,[10][11] and a PhD in 1982 in EECS with a dissertation about the problems of managing distributed software development and tools for solving these problems.[12] He was joint author of lex (a lexical analyzer and an important tool for compiler construction). He taught at Stanford Business School as a part time professor.[13]

Please, don’t spread falsehoods.

Obama can’t deliver “Change.

“We the people” need to replace the Congressional dead weight to achieve it.

Let’s eliminate Google’s Federal taxation.

What would they do with all that money? Burn it? Bury it?

No, they’d reinvest it a good portion of it. More jobs, more innovation. Even if they gave half of it to their employees as comp, the Googlers would remodel their houses, buy Teslas, etc…thus creating jobs.

This above true. It’s not nuanced or sophisticated, merely true.

Schmidt, et al., would do their shareholders and society more good if they lobbied for reduced taxes and gov’t spending. But they’d rather get wined and dined at DC cocktail parties and feel really important.

I must be suffering from a brain cloud again. Expenses are indeed deductible. Though given the way that most companies seem to treat R&D you have to wonder.

Point taken on the funding, though I don’t consider VC’s as vultures. Other things perhaps, but not vultures

My thought isn’t that a very low level government employee will be the one deciding where the funding goes (though I’ve seen stranger things), rather that the huge companies that use off shore bases to get out of paying taxes, cut R&D to improve their stock value by $0.0001 a share and make billions in profit be limited in the share that they can take in R&D. Hard to accomplish? Yes. A perfect solution? Absolutely not. But at least a step in the right direction (at least as I see things – your mileage may vary).

You actually bring up a good point, though in a round about way. The government needs good people to do good things, but for the most part they are either unable to recruit or retain the good people. I’ve seen far too many very smart, hardworking people burned out very quickly working for the government. That’s far off topic for TechCrunch, but something else that needs to be considered at some point.