Ed Zander spins his wheels - Valleywag Comments

Ed Zander spins his wheels

Owen Thomas — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:33:44 PDT

@ScalaWag: You fascinate me.

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ScalaWag — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 17:39:26 PDT

@Owen Thomas: Owen, if you want to compare Motorola to Roman Empire, could you please be consistent and perhaps even historically accurate?

You say Motorola business "like Gaul is divided into 3 parts". So this means that Motorola is only Gaul, not the whole Empire. Where is Rome itself? What's up with other provinces? True, Gaul at some points in time was divided into 3 parts, but this still depends on how your count. Finally, what tyrannical thing has Ed Zander done to merit Sic semper tyrannis treatment?

So yeah, this is quite annoying for a history buff to watch!

ScalaWag

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krylonultraflat — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:24:53 PDT

Other apt Romanesque comparisons:

- Spastic hydra
- Incontinent cerebus
- Sony

krylonultraflat

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Owen Thomas — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:22:45 PDT

@ScalaWag: Do you? Because your comments lately sure haven't been making that case for you.

Owen Thomas

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ScalaWag — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:11:35 PDT

Dude, your history parallels suck.

Do you know what the hell you are talking about?

ScalaWag

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Magister — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:49:27 PDT

@Rick: I haven't looked at MOT's finances, but I knew people selling their communication systems to municipalities, governments and companies with fleets thirty years ago and long before there were cell phones.

So, it makes sense that's still a large part of their business. After all, not only are they experts in the field, but there's probably a lot of legacy products that are being replaced, plus of course, the newfound DHS grants that you note.

Magister

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Rick — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:42:11 PDT

You've probably researched this more than me, but I was impressed that a VERY LARGE portion of moto's revenue was generated in municipal communication systems. Certainly with homeland security grants this made a large portion of the company at some point?

Rick