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- From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
- Subject: Re: Novell to buy USL !?
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- Organization: Mount Holyoke College
- References: <1992Dec29.033023.20700@sci34hub.sci.com> <C01Czy.685@iphase.com> <1hr3mmINN9cn@spool.mu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:05:27 GMT
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- In article <1hr3mmINN9cn@spool.mu.edu> marcr@studsys.mscs.mu.edu (Marc Rassbach) writes:
- >My fear is that Unix licences won't be as wide-spread. So there won't be
- >multiple vendors for a '386 world. I'll be REALLY worried if the Novellians
- >come forth with an Apple-sh proclimation: "We are comitted to high profit
- >for our stockholders"
-
- Uh, I've got news for you... commitment to high profits for
- stockholders is not "Apple-sh" (whatever that is), but rather, it is
- the official way of US-style capitalism. In fact, it is enshrined in
- law... as a shareholder I can sue the board of a coporation if I feel
- that they haven't been acting in good faith to /try/ to fulfill that
- commitment.
-
- Apparently you're quoting an Apple-exec stating this implicit commitment
- explicitly... well, if you can conclude anything from that it's only that
- that person felt that he/she had to explicitly state this because maybe
- the shareholders where beginning to feel like Apple might have their
- priorities wrong. After all they are known for some rather avant-garde
- practices (fascist legal practices notwithstanding.) In other words, you
- can bet that Novell is /at least/ as committed to high margins for their
- shareholders as Apple is. If that worries you, start worrying.
-
- Like it or not, in the US the bottom line rules. Quality of product and
- quality of life for employees are at best a means to an end, not an end
- in themselves (as in say, Japanese-style capitalism.)
-
- --
- Jurgen Botz, jbotz@mtholyoke.edu
-