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Article #620151Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
From: Dan Espen
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 18:39
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 18:39
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J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 16:18:56 -0000 (UTC), pechter@t61.(none) (William > Pechter) wrote: > >>In article <kq7a7d1sjsqnltmkm...@4ax.com>, >>J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>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. >> >>Killed, nope. It was suicide. >> >>The action was done over time by AT&T's own management. > > AT&T's management did not destroy Bell Labs. It was destroyed by the > lawyers who forced the breakup of AT&T. Actually, the breakup was proposed by AT&T. They may or may not have lost the anti-trust suit. At the time, I thought not. Within the company, the story was that AT&T would be free to enter the computer maker market thereby becoming the next big thing. Ridiculous. -- Dan Espen
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