[GreenKeys] Bell Labs - True Innovation

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 Can you imagine - after the breakup, morale must have fallen off a cliff!!!

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
To: Peter Gottlieb <nerd at verizon.net>
Cc: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Mon, Feb 27, 2012 10:18 pm
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Bell Labs - True Innovation


On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Peter Gottlieb wrote:

> So, how much is Lucent like the old Bell Labs?  Did they just change the name
> and it's pretty much the way it was or is it just a mere shadow of what it 
was?
>
It's a mere shadow.  The old Bell Labs was supported by a little bit of
everyone's telephone bill.  After the Bell System breakup Bell Labs was
an expense that the newly-competing companies that owned it could not
afford.


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