🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 15:47:33 -0500, Andreas Kohlbach
<a...@spamfence.net> wrote:

>On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 17:07:51 -0800 (PST), hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, Xerox said that, after 115 years as an independent 
>> business, it would combine operations with Fujifilm Holdings of 
>> Japan. The deal signaled the end of a company that was once an 
>> American corporate powerhouse. “Xerox is the poster child for 
>> monopoly technology businesses that cannot make the transition 
>> to a new generation of technology,” said David B. Yoffie, a 
>> professor at the Harvard Business School. The move offers a 
>> stark reminder that no matter how high a company may fly, it 
>> is still vulnerable to the next big breakthrough. Xerox joins 
>> once formidable tech companies like Kodak and BlackBerry that 
>> lost the innovation footrace.
>>
>> full article at:
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/business/dealbook/xerox-fujifilm.html
>
>Sad. Many great US pioneers in computer technology were recently sold to
>foreigners. Bell Labs became French (Alcatel-Lucent) in 2006, now Finnish
>(Nokia). They're all finished. :-(

Bell Labs was killed in 1984.  It took a long time to die but that's
when the knife went in.  I like to believe that there is a special
Hell for all the lawyers involved in that action.