"Cory Doctorow - Liberation Spectrum" - читать интересную книгу автора (Dodd Christina)

what a success smells like. This will be a success -- your success -- if you
play along. If you don't, well, we could all end up in the shitter. Canada was
the last straw for them. We either go on without you or we don't go on at all,
do you understand?"

The Series A and Series B men returned with a couple of novelty beers in
aerosol cans. Mac and Lee-Daniel sprayed their throats with the brew and
swallowed, making faces. This was high style in the circles the Series A and
Series B men traveled.

"I see," Lee-Daniel said. "So I either walk out of here as interim CEO,
knowing that I'm gone in a couple weeks, or I walk out of here fired. Is that
the deal?"

"That's the deal," the Series A man said. "And I don't see anyone offering
anything better."

MacDiarmid gave him a shut-up-asshole look, then spread his hands out.

"When I raised money from you, we did it over the course of several weeks. We
talked to lawyers. They exchanged documents. I don't think it's reasonable for
you to expect me to sign anything now without at least consulting a lawyer."

"You want several weeks?" the Series A man said, with mock incredulity.

"Half an hour," Lee-Daniel said. "I don't think that's too much to ask."

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Akwesahsne was just the sort of woods that the CogRad gear thrived in. Within
a week, the entire rez would be unwired at 500 megabits/second, enough
connectivity to move whatever data they could find a use for. The Warriors
were resentful at first, but they came around.

Lee-Daniel went out with a crew that Elaine was leading, up on the northern
border of the Sovereign. She had two junior surveyors with her, all of them
loaded with positioning gear that tied in to Galileo, the European GPS network
-- the Galileo gear cost a fortune, but they'd found that their American GPS
kit often mysteriously stopped working when they were working on projects in
the territorial USA. They'd ordered the Euro stuff from a bunch of
anti-globalization activists who'd found that the same thing happened in any
city hosting an economic summit. Europeans were more likely to treat
infrastructure as sacrosanct, while the U.S. was only too happy to monkey with
GPS for tactical reasons. The Series A man hated the expense of the Galileo
gear, hated paying off crusty-punk Starbucks-smashers for critical tools,
hated the optics of looking like a bunch of anarchists instead of a spunky
start-up.

The surveyors and the Warriors kept their distance as they set out, one
Warrior leading and one bringing up the rear. Elaine called for a break every