A side note. I saved from the dumpster a plan for AT&T self divestiture composed internally so that they could do computers (they invented a PC in 1969) and breakup logically. If it was accepted over FIGHT, FIGHT, we would be 30 years ahead and still have the old Bell Labs.https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1187099651993825280 …
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This would have stopped the anti-trust path and allow AT&T to transition out of a public utility and monopoly, a place they did not want to be but formed by corrupt political elements of the 1930s-1950s. No money really was needed, put that in the bank—they just needed to listen.
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But at that time, computers were still a relatively small, seemingly speculative market. You would have been going up against a deeply entrenched power structure. What I am asking is what were the opportunities that their intransigence create once the breakup was imposed?
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