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Re: Microsoft and LEGO Company Announce a Shared Doom
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lugnet.general
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Sun, 14 Jan 2001 19:45:58 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Erik Olson writes:
> In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
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> > Either that or they want to get M$ and Disney to bid against either other for
> > the sale of the company in 2005. :-)
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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.
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> "Come out with movie tie-ins! Everybody else is doing it!" "Give up your
> focus on old-fashioned stuff like bricks!" "Make video games!" (Goes to show
> that the chattering classes are superfluous noisemakers anyway, as all that
> happened without them.)
5 Words ... Star Wars, Disney, Harry potter?
> But, if one of those scenarios happened, we armchair folk could apply for
> those new pundit jobs. Merrill Lynch, next Tuesday, will realize that its MS
> analysts need a full-time Lego geek, and put out a job req...
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> By the way, do you know what Hasbro's proudest growth area is? Board games.
> They're recovering from Silver-Plated Star Wars mania and
> Internet-dot-bomb-induced delusions of software, and marketing their basics.
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 Play and earlier on stuff for the
BBC Micro . Thats not low quality..
> -Erik
Alex
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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. (24 years ago, 14-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 (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jan-01, to lugnet.general)
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