2009/10/30 Ben Ide <benide@gmail.com>:
Ide. I'm not Eric's brother. ;-) And you needn't assume or read into anything I write. I'm just not that deep. :-) Now, let's say I buy out a company or two and I get certain assets from those buyouts. How much do you think I should charge to resell those assets to anyone else, even a foundation? And how would donating those assets benefit me to the same compensatory level that everyone in the foundation would achieve? I expend capital to expand my company and ensure continued use of important resources, and then I give it away? To people with their own companies, many of which compete directly with mine?
Which company bought out which company? Or is this merely a hypothetical? Or is a company about to be bought? Is someone attempting to rewrite history again?
If you think reimbursement of DNS costs and maybe trademark application fees would cover the bill, I would say you are wrong by a considerable magnitude. I might even raise the price, knowing that there's a demand for these assets. But that's just me, being shallow. :-D
That would be you acting in complete contradiction to your word, given on a number of occasions, not just you being shallow. (Speaking in the hypothetical here also) Chris