[2245] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: SONET Interconnect (was RE: MCI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shikhar Bajaj)
Fri Mar 29 11:46:14 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 11:22:36 -0500
From: bajaj@bellcore.com (Shikhar Bajaj)
To: avg@postman.ncube.com
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.
>
In this particular case, it has been (voraciously :)) pointed out that people
have other choices so I don't think that applies. As for "people not knowing better,"
I'm not even going to touch that one.
> --vadim
>
> PS Can you say that loss writeoff is a way to recover investment?
> I've certainly seen some clever accounting going on :)
True. Writeoffs and depreciation are a way to recover some of your costs. But
you still have to sell stuff to recover all of your investments. But, I'm
not an accountant so I don't know how far these things can be stretched.
If you have any good ideas, pass them on. April 15 is fast approaching.
Anyone got a router that I can use as a tax shelter? ;-)
Shikhar
