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Funny ... I thought we were talking about Behringer ...LOL! On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Mech <mech@m3ch.net> wrote: > At 1:42 AM -0400 6/29/08, Todd Pafford wrote: >> >> Me too, but if that's where the discussion is, I'll swallow my pride >> and put up with it. How can such a big name in the internet industry >> make stuff that sucks so much? :/ > > Well, I'd say they don't make stuff that sucks so much, because they >don't > make stuff. > > Instead, they buy up other start-ups (in this instance, e-groups and > onelist) in order to drive up their perceived value and hence their stock > price. Then, rather than build on those start-up's technologies and >force > innovation, they merely let them languish and go buy up more start-ups. > When things start to look like they can't build on them any more, the >top > guys just cash in their stock options and bail. > > It's not about technological innovation, or even excellence in service. > It's about money and merely playing a big game to get ahead. > > To be fair, large companies are almost forced to behave in this manner >once > they go public. There's this huge chunk of fickle investors/shareholders > who only buy and sell your public stock to line their own pockets. If >you > can't sell them on the idea that you're going to make them money, they'll > dump you like a hot potato and your stock value goes into the gutter; as > well as any perceived market value and future sales. These stockholders > could give a d*** about whether you're actually making stuff that doesn't > suck. They only want you to make them cash. > > Yahoo used to be the darling of the Internet, now it's Google. Pretty >soon, > Google should succumb to the same suckage factor and somebody else will >take > their place. The wheel turns, the top dog gets chopped up and fed to the > runts.... > > --m. > -- > _____ > "I want to keep you alive so there is always the possibility of murder... > later" > >