What’s driving a real-world standardized shop-floor communications standard?

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There’s only so much a company can give away without extracting payment of some kind. Perhaps the world’s biggest provider of free stuff, Google, “gives away” its search tools, but in exchange users are offered less than democratic responses whereby the highest ranked terms are paid for. And in fact, the cost of “free” search is underwritten by copious amounts of advertising.

Its economy may feel turmoil but government policies should boost its semiconductor sector.