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On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:

> On 12/16/24 4:18 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:04:19 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
>> 
>>> On 12/15/24 5:10 PM, D wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Sun, 15 Dec 2024, rbowman wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 14:08:24 -0000 (UTC), Lars Poulsen wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> My boss and I looked out and saw that there were no engineer jobs
>>>>>> available in town; LM Ericsson had just closed their US Internet
>>>>>> group and put 300 Internet engineers on the street. So he asked if I
>>>>>> would be willing to join him in a startup.
>>>>> 
>>>>> A friend got caught in the Marconi to Ericcson transition. It was fun
>>>>> while it lasted.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> Ahh Ericsson... the only company on the planet that makes the
>>>> government look and feel like a startup with hipsters!
>>>
>>>     Hey - Nordic - a different way of thinking. Don't be a bigot now  :-)
>> 
>> Hey, Nordic Semiconductor does fine work -- but they're Norwegians, not
>> Swedes.
>
>
>  FYI ... Norway, Sweden, Finland and often Denmark are
>  generically referred to as "The Nordics". There is
>  enough shared culture & history to kinda make them a
>  distinctive cultural group.

Don't trust the danish! They are very tricky people. They invaded sweden 
once, and we're constantly watching them, in case they will try it again! 
As for the rest, they are good people, although the norwegian are the most 
lazy people on the planet.

>  As for the BUSINESS SENSIBILITY of Ericsson, well ...