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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.034815.13746@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec20.052923.23904@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec22.023401.25792@spang.Camosun.BC.CA> <1992Dec25.223003.11531@microsoft.com> <wiegand.725820437@lido16>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 03:48:15 GMT
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- In article <wiegand.725820437@lido16>, wiegand@rtsg.mot.com (Robert Wiegand) writes:
- |> 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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- If the market hadn't changed, IBM would be doing just fine. The only reason
- IBM is having woes is because of competition.
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