Employees like this usually cost the company at least double their salary in support and benefits, so you’re probably talking about half that at most.

Along with that, there is probably a lot of R&D expenses as well.

Finally, Meta seems to be subsidizing the consumer hardware, so that’s probably hurting the bottom line even more.

The development of standards doesn’t have to be seen as capitalist, though. There are benefits for non-capitalist economies to define standards as a way to achieve interoperability across different devices. For instance, I don’t see why a communist country wouldn’t standardize a power plug.

I feel like WoW is a bad example because the game’s business model is the subscription. It is being sold as a service which Blizzard actively manages. I’d accept the argument for the Diablo series, since Diablo is designed for single player and small servers.

But as a counterargument, why aren’t more games open source? What is it about gaming where open source gaming is so small compared closed source, while it isn’t like that with other forms of software?

We’re seeing the beginnings of further European integration. Who knows, there may even be an EU military in the future.

He’s trying to raise revenue in a way he can control.

Moving out days are a great way to get cheap furniture. Troll apartment buildings at the end of the month and you can usually find some furniture getting thrown out. I still have some dumpster pieces that are in good condition.