Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: 12 Dec 2024 20:44:29 GMT Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <9eb45192-e996-fa3d-b002-c02798bb2b7a@example.net> <7e375fa6-9dad-927b-ebcb-898b6adafc00@example.net> <998225ad-dc63-23f8-4e4b-92e76ec29636@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net V75pRcxDmkIJxfq1qng96wFMTIEv0EIv+YTWdHOE2+yAGkpaJZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:YNI/kd7u4/sL5Ycqa3v+ZURanj8= sha256:KGmuxnjOV8qwSFE8yUzhWNvrnD15u0Lm1Q9fBTCEePE= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62272 On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:14:48 +0100, D wrote: > As a small business owner, I say... this is the truth! It is absolutely > incredible the shit big companies can do, and still survive and thrive! That's a discussion I had with the company president several times. One of the VPs was always chasing the big sales. My argument was a company like Lockheed Martin could win the bid, fuck it up completely, get sued, and shrug it off; we couldn't. That came to realization when Lockheed won the bid for an emergency dispatch system for the City of London. They failed to deliver, were sued for breach of contract and non-performance, and went on to their next scam.