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- From: louis@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Louis Schmittroth)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: DOES AMERICA SAY YES TO JAPAN? - Off track!!
- Message-ID: <louis.724731363@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 19 Dec 92 02:16:03 GMT
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- burke@tss.com (Jim Burke) writes:
-
- >This is not Japan bashing. It is U.S. government policy bashing. There
- >are many ways our government could help our industries to compete without
- >creating abusive monopolies. Did anyone here benefit from the AT&T
- >break-up? How much farther along might we be in high-tech digital communications
- >if one company was running the show? How much cheaper might our phone bills
- >be?
-
- Right on. Why is legal for Toyota and GM to collaborate (i.e. built a
- joint assembly plant in Fremont, CA) and not Ford and Chrysler, for
- example. BMW and Daimler-Benz in Germany cooperate in joint factories,
- not for assembly of complete cars, but in specific components to get an
- advantage *over the foreign competition*.
-
- A real tragedy for America was the breakup of AT&T.
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- Louis Schmittroth louis@cs.athabascau.ca
- NW 1/4 18 67 21 W4 Alberta.
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