This is a hit-or-miss No salary information was disclosed for Chairman Bill Gates. He is no longer a Microsoft "named executive officer" and his pay is "substantially less" than …Microsoft CEO's Pay Valued at $1.3M. Wow… I love this using this mixing Business With Gov’t Stupidity: General Clark Tells Congress Why It Should Regulate P2P (And Make Him Richer) Remember the ridiculous story last month about how some clueless politicians were blaming the fact that some government employees were breaking rules and too stupid to understand how P2P software worked that P2P software needed to be regulated for the good of national security? It turns out that there’s even more to this story. Congress called in a “star witness,” in former presidential candidate General Wesley Clark, who took the position that P2P must be regulated: “If you saw the scope of the risk, I think you’d agree that it’s just totally unacceptable. The American people would be outraged if they were aware of what’s inadvertently shared by government agencies on P2P networks. They would demand solutions.” And what kind of solutions would those be? Apparently, the kind whereby the gov’t regulates P2P providers and requires they build in security. And what kind of security would that be? Why, perhaps the kind of security supplied by a company advised by the very same General Wesley Clark. We won’t even bother to name the company here, because it doesn’t need any additional free publicity, but its website is full of scary statements about how P2P software is threatening national security. Others have talked about judge Says Jury Screwed Up In Awarding Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 Billion From Microsoft For MP3 Patents Back in February, a jury told Microsoft to pay Alcatel-Lucent $1.5 billion for supposedly violating some patents Alcatel-Lucent held on MP3 technology. The case helped highlight the patent thicket around MP3 technologies, as Microsoft had licensed the technology from the creator of the MP3 technology, Fraunhofer. Back in May, as the judge was considering what to do about the jury’s award, Alcatel-Lucent actually claimed that $1.5 billion wasn’t enough. It appears the judge not only didn’t buy that story, but didn’t buy the jury’s reasoning either. Today he threw out the jury’s ruling, noting that Microsoft doesn’t even infringe on one of the patents in question, and the other one is jointly owned by Fraunhofer, and therefore Microsoft has a legitimate license to it already. As the judge said, “The jury’s verdict was against the clear weight of the evidence.” As you might imagine, Alcatel-Lucent is not happy about this, calling the ruling “shocking and disturbing.” So, there is likely going to be a long appeals process. However, this is the second time in recent weeks that we’re seeing courts take a more reasonable approach on patents. Hopefully, it’s the start of a trend.Did you know that Billion means chiefly British. The cardinal number equal to 1012. And if you would like to know do You Need an MBA to Conquer the World? - TheStreet.com Take - Stockpickr) Bill Gates and Dell's (DELL - Cramer's Take - Stockpickr) Michael Dell, it wasn't necessary — they all dropped out of college.Did you know that World means a celestial body such as a planet: the possibility of life on other worlds. this is worth your time