From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 4 16: 0:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C37937B403; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 16:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA75771; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 01:00:46 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: John Baldwin Cc: "Thomas M. Sommers" , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The desktop apathy? I think not. References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 05 Jun 2001 01:00:45 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Baldwin writes: > On the contrary, you don't buy the part of the company that is losing money. > You buy the part that is making money. Your presumptions are rather wrong, > but that's all I'll say. It's not necessarily as b&w as you describe. There are many reasons why a company (or a division) makes money (or doesn't); what works in one company or in one market doesn't necessarily work in another. A division that fails to turn a profit in the context of one company may still become a valuable asset to another company, and selling it off may be a good way for the first company to unload some ballast. (not that I'm saying that this is what's happening here - just that the world is not all black and white) DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message