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Article #620188Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners (was: Xerox company sold)
From: John Levine
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 18:31
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 18:31
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In article <8qtb7d5n9t5h883cc...@4ax.com>, J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: >>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. AT&T could have divested Western Electric and kept the operating companies and Bell Labs, but made the spectacularly wrong prediction that there'd be more money in long distance than in POTS. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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