Re: The Joy of *small* business

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024, 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!

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 Hey - Nordic - a different way of thinking.
 Don't be a bigot now  :-)
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A complete mystery to me that they are still around.

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 Because they still have something to offer.
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 Erlang is still around and used - readily had for
 Linux. An unusual paradigm, but you CAN do stuff.

Didn't they get rid of Erlang? I thought Armstrong purchased or acquired it from Ericsson and became a very wealthy man. He actually gave a guest lecture at my university. I still remember him.