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Something is missing from this reaction: AI. MS is buying a privileged access to billions lines of code with their history and corrections. In 5-10Y times most code will be produced by AI and the simplest way to train a AI system is to to have access to data. That's what they bought, data. Unfortunately this is another step towards more concentration in IT...

are you a member of a swiss business angel network ? any preferred way to contact you ?

anybody has experience moving from Flex to dojo toolkit ?

..and in which part of the world are you looking for an internship?

ambient and downbeat http://divbyzero.de (also through http://divbyzeroambient.rad.io/ )

Switzerland...

Have a look at clockingit.com : project management, collaboration, time tracking..

(IANAL) In Europe, software is not patentable unless there is a kind of physical/technical effect that goes beyond the normal interaction between the program and the computer.

The usual example is the software to control a anti-lock braking system: as there is a technical effect, it is patentable...

More details here: http://www.epo.org/topics/issues/computer-implemented-invent...

I am in the same process as you and also thinking of Luxembourg. Alternatively have you considered Switzerland (and some specific cantons like Zug ) in your research ?

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Interesting ... I am sometimes at my desk and working on the design of my app for quite a long time without using the computer...

HiveDesk would consider I am not working if I am 5 minutes idle, right? have you considered an additional periodic webcam screenshot ?

69 miles north ...

For western Europe I would also suggest Luxembourg. Living there is also quite expensive ( but you may live in one of the neighbouring countries)... European HQ of Ebay,Skype,Paypal,Amazon,ITunes are all located in Luxembourg for IP, tax, regulatory (e-commerce) reasons.It's also easier to find motivated multilingual people.

Switzerland

I would recommend: The power of unfair advantage ( John Nesheim).

Note: Founders at work is available online (pdf)