activeco - 12:23 pm on Feb 19, 2008 (gmt 0)

Can you name any industry/profession where people are paid based purely on their ideas?

This was not a simple idea, but rather a business plan, which could be fully copyrighted.

However what I miss here is whether he was really accepted as a Google contractor or not, or was he actually paid as a contractor in which case he has almost no chance to win.