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Mar 9th, 2006, 1:55 PM
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Having a substantial profit margin in a business that I built from the ground up would be awesome. Why work for someone else?
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Mar 9th, 2006, 2:29 PM
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Not everyone can accomplish that
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Mar 9th, 2006, 2:32 PM
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Yep, hence the reason it would be awesome.
Unfortunately, we are not in an ideal world.
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Mar 9th, 2006, 2:37 PM
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yeah...unfortunately, right?
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Mar 9th, 2006, 4:57 PM
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Mar 10th, 2006, 3:37 PM
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IBM was and still is a very big company, 300 thousand employees. Wasn't that one of the reasons that there decisions were less than palatable?
By the way, another huge company (1 million people employed at peak) was AT&T (Bell System), they split up, but look at this. It says: "Bellsouth merger proposed 10 March 2006." Is that information correct?
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Mar 10th, 2006, 5:43 PM
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Yeah, I heard about that as well... and apparently, it will leave AT&T and Verizon as the only remaining companies from the original split.
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Mar 10th, 2006, 9:57 PM
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Yep, its true... all I have to say... my telephone bill better get lower... and they better add more slots for DSL 6.0 so I can get off this Ultra crap.
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Mar 11th, 2006, 7:31 AM
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IBM's decision was less than palatable because they chose an inferior microprocessor. They chose an inferior OS as well, but left to their own devices, they would have fixed that, eventually. I read about the AT&T thing, too. It's almost unbelievable. I was in the telecomm industry, working on one of the first cell systems, when the baby Bells were broken off. AT&T and Bell Labs were a truly positive force for technological advance, but a truly negative force for competetive communications. If the breakup had not occurred the present world of cellular communications would not exist to the extent it does. The 'right' to provide communications in a metropolitan area (and other areas) was exceedingly restricted and one-sided.
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