Re: GM's New Chairman -- You Won't Drive on My Roads for Free

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Ronald J Riley \(RJR Com\)" <rjr () rjriley com>
Date: June 12, 2009 3:34:42 PM EDT
To: <dave () farber net>
Subject: RE: [IP] Re:   GM's New Chairman -- You Won't Drive on My  
Roads for Free

It is my view that telecoms and auto are cut from the same cloth.   
Both are
companies that have lost their edge.  GM is an example of what happens  
to
companies who cannot or will not keep their business model relevant.   
Both
the auto industry and telecom have long histories of misappropriating  
others
inventions.  What happens to companies who no longer produce the  
inventions
they need to survive and who intentionally alienate those who are  
producing
those inventions?  What happens when industries collectively drive  
inventors
to work in other areas?

For many years I have been comparing upper management in stagnating
industries to teenage boys.  They have big egos and exercise little  
thought
before engaging them.  They are short term gain oriented, and they  
have a
marginally developed sense of ethics.   They ride their companies  
right into
the ground.  Auto companies are failing because of this and telecoms  
have
been showing the same traits which destroyed the auto companies.

Both refuse to adapt to changing market conditions.

Ronald J. Riley,

Speaking only on my own behalf.
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net]
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2009 1:35 PM
To: ip
Subject: [IP] Re: GM's New Chairman -- You Won't Drive on My Roads for  
Free



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From: Adam Thornton <adam () io com>
Date: June 12, 2009 12:56:42 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:   GM's New Chairman -- You Won't Drive on My
Roads for Free

For IP, if you like.


On Jun 12, 2009, at 11:43 AM, David Farber wrote:

> It is also ironic that someone who put the interest of AT&T above that
> of the government and society now runs a company in which the
> government is the major stockholder.

Given how cheerfully and happily AT&T complied with warrantless wiretap
demands from the Bush administration, it seems to me that the  
interests of
AT&T and the government were both respected, with only society getting  
the
shaft.  In which case, he's *perfect* for the GM job.

Adam




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