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Article #620186Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners
From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 21:54
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 21:54
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On Sat, 03 Feb 2018 13:39:06 -0500, Dan Espen <dan1...@gmail.com> wrote: >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. You make it sound like AT&T just spontaneously said "we're going to break up into a bunch of little companies that compete with each other". >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. That story is told. However if the lawyers hadn't been involved they would never have done it. > >Ridiculous.
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