Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 16:06:46 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Thomas M. Sommers" <tms2@mail.ptd.net> Subject: Re: The desktop apathy? I think not. Message-ID: <XFMail.010604160646.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <xzpofs3c0ki.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 04-Jun-01 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> 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) Fair enough. I was speaking more specifically at the situation in question in an attempt to at least keep the flow of FUD down to a small torrent. :) -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.Baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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