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Date: Thu,  7 Nov 2002 11:55:32 -0800
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presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> Lucent's woes has caused many researchers to leave.  Our lab is
> showing the strain and we've just been told that we're going to
> get hit with the next wave of firings.  In the last few years
> we've lost Ken Thompson, Phil Winterbottom, Sean Dorward, and
> just recently Sean Quinlan, and Rob Pike.

I knew things weren't peachy at the Labs, but I didn't realize they were
   abysmal.

Plus, what a great way to bolster investor confidence:

"Lucent Technologies:  We 'downsized' a National Medal of Technology
winner."

So if I win the lottery tonight, any idea of the going price for the
Computing Sciences Research Center?

(Maybe $1M in office space and gear, and another $1.5M per employee in
exchange for showing up at work when it suits them?  Bring your own
healthcare....)

-Jack

P.S.

I'd hire your glassblower, too.  I think he's one of five people in the
nation blowing custom glass for experiments.