Re: ARM about to be sold

From	rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.arch.embedded
Subject	Re: ARM about to be sold
Date	2016-07-19 03:13 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 7/18/2016 11:50 PM, Tim Wescott wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 11:01:40 -0400, rickman wrote:
>
>> On 7/18/2016 8:15 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> ARM is about to be sold to a Japanese company:
>>>
>>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36822806
>>>
>>> As a Brit, it saddens me to see a British success story sold into
>>> foreign hands, but my real concern is about what the future might bring
>>> several years down the road.
>>
>> I read they expect to double the UK workforce, so not all bad.
>>
>>
>>> Questions currently going through my mind include whether ARM will
>>> still be able to perform R&D at their current rate and whether ARM's
>>> engineers will be outsourced in the future and replaced with lower
>>> quality staff.
>>
>> I doubt it.  Would you pay billions for a working company and then mess
>> it up?  Anyone who can raise billions is not stupid.
>
> History disagrees with you.  Sometimes these things work out splendidly,
> sometimes they work horribly.  Usually the people who make the initial
> deal make out like bandits ('cuz they're not stupid), but often the
> companies involved go down the tubes, leaving stockholders holding an
> empty bag.

Your logic is very poor.  History says things can go bad, but that is no 
contradiction to what I said.

-- 

Rick C

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ARM about to be sold Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2016-07-18 12:15 +0000
  Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 11:01 -0400
    Re: ARM about to be sold Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-07-18 16:44 +0000
      Re: ARM about to be sold "tim..." <tims_new_home@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-18 17:53 +0100
        Re: ARM about to be sold "Bill Davy" <Bill@SynectixLtd.com> - 2016-07-19 12:06 +0100
    Re: ARM about to be sold Mike Perkins <spam@spam.com> - 2016-07-18 19:25 +0100
    Re: ARM about to be sold Nils M Holm <nmh@ananda.local> - 2016-07-18 19:10 +0000
      Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 17:58 -0400
    Re: ARM about to be sold Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> - 2016-07-18 22:50 -0500
      Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 03:13 -0400
        Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-19 10:23 +0300
          Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 10:26 -0400
            Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-19 17:35 +0300
          Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-26 10:57 -0500
            Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 13:23 -0400
              Re: ARM about to be sold Evgeny Filatov <filatov.ev@mipt.ru> - 2016-07-26 20:39 +0300
                Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 13:49 -0400
                Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-26 20:51 +0300
                Re: ARM about to be sold Evgeny Filatov <filatov.ev@mipt.ru> - 2016-07-26 21:08 +0300
                Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-26 22:57 +0300
              Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-26 20:56 +0300
              Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-26 13:45 -0500
                Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-27 03:45 +0300
                Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-27 11:26 -0500
                Re: ARM about to be sold lasselangwadtchristensen@gmail.com - 2016-07-27 15:00 -0700
                Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-28 01:46 -0500
                Re: ARM about to be sold Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2016-07-28 17:39 +0000
                Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 18:13 -0400
    Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-26 10:49 -0500
  Re: ARM about to be sold Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-18 08:20 -0700

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