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(...) Run! Microsoft is coming! Microsoft is coming! Must-not-be-assimilated-by a-gigantic-corporation! Run! <End transmission> Come on, this is getting stupid. Why do companys nowadays seem insistant on forming completely dumb alliances (for (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) They must be hurting really bad in order to do something this desperate. Either that or they want to get M$ and Disney to bid against either other for the sale of the company in 2005. :-) --Todd (23 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) So long as TLG remains privately owned, they remain free from hordes of stock analysts and professional chattering classes (and Yahoo Finance yahoos) telling them how they should run the company. "Come out with movie tie-ins! Everybody else is (...) (23 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) 5 Words ... Star Wars, Disney, Harry potter? (...) But From my reaserch one of thier software arms was Europress Intreactive.. (that before it got absorbed into 'American-Megacorp Toy Holdings Inc'. used to write brillant software like Klick n (...) (23 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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(...) I didn't say anything about quality. "Used to" goes for a lot of companies that are now part of Hasbro or Mattel. The bottom line is that both of them nearly choked to death on buying (overpaying) and mis-managing software companies. (23 years ago, 14-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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