One theory is that Google may not be aware that OpenCog has a linking exception in its AGPL license, whereas the Wikipedia page lists the project as AGPL without mentioning the linking exception. This is a huge, huge detail that would potentially affect interest by a party such as Google.
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Andi <[email protected]> wrote: > Gaurav, > speaking about Google I mean Alphabet inc. which former was Google inc. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc. > Revenue 2016 will be about 80.000.000.000 USD, earnings about 20.000.000.000 > USD, liquid money about 75.000.000.000. > > In an TV-interview the head of google X-labs in Switzerland said google has > to spend 1,5 billion USD every week. So it was a loose estimation that they > could spend 500.000.000 USD every week on new projects. > > Looking more closely to this I found out that it is usual for companies to > spend a big part of the earnings on growth and new projects for not having > to pay to much tax. The tech people would like to spend every thing on new > projects but the share holders want to have some profits. > > The losses produced by the x-labs, where all the new things are done, are > about 4 billion every year and share holders start complaining. So it is > more realistic to say that they have some ten millions to spend on new > projects every week not 500.000.000 as I said. > > But AGI is essential for Google! More essential than just to spend money > that can be wasted to save tax. > And it is not an easy thing! > For intelligent people it is more easy than for others - they need just to > watch how things are done in their own mind... and put it to software. But > if you look around you will find that not so many are able to do this. But > Ben obviously can. I see no one who has the same overview and is working so > hard and so long on this topic like he. Or see what linas is doing with link > grammar. It's overwelming. > > So if Google want to advance quick they should fund several teams in > parallel. And OpenGog would be worth some million in all cases. > > --Andi > > > > > > > > Am Sonntag, 31. Juli 2016 06:35:30 UTC+2 schrieb Gaurav Gautam: >> >> I did not know Google was that rich! > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "opencog" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/b818481a-6be7-46c5-aa0b-2a3b6e2a71c9%40googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "opencog" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/opencog. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/opencog/CAMyYmr8XgGF%2BuO4Mm_d0kqjSuAkNOTXYMuqvuE3669ih8%3DxTaw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
