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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  :-)

> A complete mystery to me that they are still around.

   Because they still have something to offer.

   Erlang is still around and used - readily had for
   Linux. An unusual paradigm, but you CAN do stuff.