Re: New home for list needed.

[Greg Schmitz <gws1@columbia.edu>]

No,  companies buy other companies so that they can make more money.  
The reasons are varied: strip down or streamline  the old company in an 
attempt to make more money; get the intellectual property, database 
lists or brandname form the purchased company, kill the purchased 
company to eliminate competition and on and on.  What was Microsoft's 
plan for Yahoo if it had managed to get hold of it - there was certainly 
lots of speculation as any web or news search will reveal. 
--g

Loris Medici wrote:
> But won't that be self-detrimental for the buying company? I always thought
> companies buy others mostly for (but not limited to) their user base...
> Anyway, I would definitely prefer a serious (and dedicated) education
> institution as list host (as you do) but what if nobody step forward in a
> reasonable time?
>
> Regards,
> Loris.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Schmitz [mailto:gws1@columbia.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:21 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Subject: Re: New home for list needed.
>
> I think it would be a bad move to leave this group in the hands of a
> commercial concern like Google or Yahoo.  I won't go on at length about why
> this is not a good idea, but someday Google might be owned by somebody else
> and then you could kiss the list good-bye.  I hope that it might be hosted
> by another educational institution as it always has been in the past.
>
>
>