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- From: wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
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- Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
- References: <1992Dec20.052923.23904@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec22.023401.25792@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> <1992Dec25.223003.11531@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 16:47:17 GMT
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- robertre@microsoft.com (Robert Reichel ms2) writes:
-
- >Why not look at the current history of IBM: stock price at a 20 year low,
- >forced layoffs, massive writeoffs, talk of a cut in the sacred dividend.
- >And this is the company that was harrassed for over 10 years by the government
- >for anti-trust violations, with nothing but a huge waste of taxpayer
- >money to show for the effort. IBM didn't change its business practices
- >one iota.
-
- >The fact that a company who once totally dominated its industry could
- >fall on the hard times that IBM has is proof enough that the market
- >takes care of itself, without any "help" from the government.
-
- This proves nothing. IBM's problems are mostly internal, not caused
- by the external market. Just because one big company has problems
- doesn't mean this will be true of all big companies. If IBM had been
- better managed the results could have been quite different.
-
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- Robert Wiegand - Motorola Inc.
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- Disclamer: I didn't do it - I was somewhere else at the time.
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