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Re: Now OT: Yahoogroups (was Re: modifying the FCB1010)



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"
>
>