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Someone buys it for 1, and if they like it, it goes up to 2 Penny.

What this buys you is that if an attacker intercepts that login, it can't be re-used.

Recall their initial messaging around iAds: we design your ads, extremely costly initial ad buys, only big brands.

You know that the only buys are those people dipping toes into the water.

He buys new clothes all the time because washing old clothes is wasteful.

Government buys at fair market value some apartments or housing how about that?

Your spouse buys my child a $50K car as a birthday present.

Once people realize that lobbying expenditures include salaries and media buys, it's not hard to see how the total gets into many millions of dollars.

Let's say a company you hate buys a relatively common word.

And if I charge for it and no one buys it, what then, should I give up or make it open-source?

Of course timing your buys is a game I'm not willing to play personally...

OK, but if someone who made a fortune in Germany moves to Switzerland and buys a Mercedes, does that not add about $50 K to Swiss GDP?

This is because whoever buys the design buys a license to "publish" and "make public" the design (which can of course be negotiated depending on the expected exposure).

In the alternative, the US government "buys you out" for several tens of millions.

It's not that MegaCorp's CEO says "oh shit, we have to buy IUsedThisToilet before Google buys it").

Anyone who buys/implements this gear is effectively locking themselves in and, while it may work just fine within their own datacenters, they're still going to have to use the "normal" (i.e.