Re: Important US technology companies sold to foreigners (was: Xerox company sold)

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From: J. Clarke
Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2018 22:09

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On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 18:31:35 -0000 (UTC), John Levine <jo...@taugh.com>
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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.

Could never have sold that one to the courts.  The big motivator for
the lawsuit was that MCI wanted to play in long distance.

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