From: ches@cheswick.com (William Cheswick)
Subject: [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ]
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 15:11:22 -0500 [thread overview]
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While I am no fan of how AT&T ran its business, and the diminution of Bell Labs is
a capital crime to humanity, it must be noted that AT&T was competing with MCI, who
was cooking the books. “How can they offer phone calls for $0.01/minute?” The answer:
they couldn’t, but did anyway.
BTW, there are still good people doing good work at Bell Labs. But it certainly isn’t
what it used to be.
> On 11Dec 2017, at 1:17 PM, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Except that the new AT&T, liberated from the regulatory chains of the
> Bell operating companies, never learned how to compete in the free
> market. They got their clock cleaned by the competition. In
> desperation they bought Olivetti and only managed to run it into the
> ground.
>
> -Paul W.
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Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-06 0:33 [TUHS] V7 Addendem Warner Losh
2017-12-06 1:07 ` Warren Toomey
2017-12-06 16:11 ` Random832
2017-12-06 16:15 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-06 18:39 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-06 18:49 ` [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ] Jon Steinhart
2017-12-06 18:53 ` Warner Losh
2017-12-06 18:58 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-06 18:54 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-06 19:20 ` William Pechter
2017-12-07 14:26 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-06 19:23 ` William Corcoran
2017-12-06 20:30 ` Kurt H Maier
2017-12-06 23:59 ` George Michaelson
2017-12-07 14:03 ` Ron Natalie
2017-12-07 15:34 ` William Corcoran
2017-12-07 5:08 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-07 15:09 ` Larry McVoy
2017-12-11 18:17 ` Paul Winalski
2017-12-11 18:39 ` Clem Cole
2017-12-12 0:27 ` Steve Johnson
2017-12-12 1:05 ` [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ] [ and besides it's "Addendum" ] Jon Steinhart
2017-12-12 1:45 ` [TUHS] MERT? Larry McVoy
2017-12-12 2:09 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-12-13 17:09 ` [TUHS] V7 Addendem [ really lawyers and AT&T consent decree ] Jason Stevens
2017-12-13 17:05 ` Jason Stevens
2017-12-11 20:11 ` William Cheswick [this message]
2017-12-11 23:26 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-12-11 19:23 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 16:04 ` Random832
2017-12-12 1:28 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 1:42 ` George Michaelson
2017-12-12 2:04 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-12 2:17 ` George Michaelson
2017-12-12 13:59 Noel Chiappa
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