[2241] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SONET Interconnect (was RE: MCI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Fri Mar 29 02:42:00 1996
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 1996 23:32:58 +0800
From: avg@postman.ncube.com (Vadim Antonov)
To: bajaj@bellcore.com, smd@icp.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
>According to Sean Doran:
> Someone suggested to me that it's because so much money has
> been spent on developing the technology that it HAS to be
> used in order to recover the investment.
>
>Doesn't the fact that they recover the investment mean that enough
>people wanted the product and were willing to pay for it?
>
>Shikhar
Nah, rather that they woudln't get a choice or would not know
better. ATM is like a pyramid craze.
--vadim
PS Can you say that loss writeoff is a way to recover investment?
I've certainly seen some clever accounting going on :)
