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Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 10:20:02 +0100
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, John Ames wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 19:45:03 +0100
> D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>
>> Sounds like the clowns who acquired SUSE linux. Absolute disaster. It
>> is very strange that those types of people are earning the amount of
>> money they do.
>>
>> Surely it must only be about finding the greater fool, and nothing
>> about actually creating value.
>
> It absolutely is, where "finding the greater fool" is defined as
> "juicing the numbers just long enough to pull off an IPO, and scampering
> off before the resulting twisted steroid mutant collapses into flaming
> ruin."

This is why I never participate in IPO:s. Much better to wait for the 
small initial uptick, and then potentially buy once the lipstick comes off 
the pig.

> Unfortunately, this model is absolutely *epidemic* these days (in the
> US, at least.) Ed Zitron - https://www.wheresyoured.at/ - has written
> quite a bit in the last few years about the deleterious effects this
> has had on the tech industry.

This is not so good. This abuse of capitalism is what gives life to the 
left.