“We use a peer-to-peer system like Skype, and we are based on a hardware model, so we depend on gross hardware margins.”
Ooma CEO Andrew Frame, on his startup’s plan to profit by selling ridiculously overpriced VOIP equipment to consumers, Red Herring, 20 July 2007
“Just a couple days ago, I was researching an old IBM mainframe system from the 1960s I had created on Google, and it never occurred to me to search for videos on that kind of query.”
Google cofounder Sergey Brin, trying to justify the $1.65 billion he spent on YouTube, SeekingAlpha, 19 July 2007
“We want to create great online content … and also something that is more than a glorified Internet ad at the same time.”
BermanBraun cofounder and former Yahoo media executive Lloyd Braun, on signing a deal to create ads masked as entertainment for Pepsi, AllThingsD.com, 18 July 2007
“The URLs below contain scanned copies of original works of authorship owned by Rowling and Scholastic, namely a forthcoming Harry Potter book.”
Lawyers for Scholastic, publisher of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, in a legal filing complaining about the online posting of photographs of the J.K. Rowling book’s pages, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2007
“Nothing about being a public figure compels one to surrender one’s First Amendment rights.”
Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, on why the Constitution gives him the right to post as “Hannibal” in online forums, The New York Times, 16 July 2007
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