Every "divestiture" had an adverse effect on critical mass. The split
between AT&T and Bellcore was a big hurt.
The split between AT&T and Lucent was another. When I joined the Labs in
1973, it was an honor to work there.
I don't see anything special about any of the remaining fragments, and they
seem to be determined to make
themselves less and less attractive. ("Come work for AT&T instead of Google
and we'll allow you to spend
several weeks each year training for strike duty for which you'll have to
be prepared to show up on 48 hours notice,
and, by the way, that vacation time you cannot take because you have to
have to remain available cannot be
carried over.") -- jpl

On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 9:32 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

> Well that sucks but Bell Labs has not been Bell Labs for a long time.
> I think most of us here know what Bell Labs contributed to the world,
> you youngsters who don't know, look it up, it is one of the greatest
> research/business stories in history.
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 09:08:51PM -0400, John P. Linderman wrote:
> > I'm hearing that 50% of what's left of AT&T research got the axe today.
> > I'm hoping to hear from friends about details.
> > God's gift to google, as we have said in the past.
>
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> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
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