From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Jun 4 16: 6:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 168AD37B403 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 16:06:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: from foo.osd.bsdi.com (root@foo.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.137]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f54N6mK56106; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 16:06:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@foo.osd.bsdi.com) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by foo.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f54N6kS72888; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 16:06:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2001 16:06:46 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: The desktop apathy? I think not. Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, "Thomas M. Sommers" 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 On 04-Jun-01 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > 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) 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 -- 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