Re: windows programming tutorials

[Marin David Condic <condicma@bogon.pwfl.com>]

Ted Dennison wrote:

> Back in '94 when Martin Marietta (now LMC) started consolidating plants
> with the newly acquired GE Aerospace plants, they decided that one
> particlar operation in Vermont would be moved to Orlando. Of course they
> sent out offers to all the engineers to move to the Orlando plant. Only
> a couple of engineers agreed, and they were both very junior. The rest
> of the engineers threatened to start up a competeing company in the
> newly-abandoned plant (with much cheaper rent).
>
> The operation ended up staying in Vermont.
>
> (not that I'm suggesting anything...)
> --

Pretty clever!

Not that I'm shooting the idea down - or considering a revolution - but I
think it would be very difficult to do that here. A "competing" business
would be one that was making large military jet engines. Not something you
can easily get venture capital to back & contracts being as scarce as they
are, you could be waiting for years just to be able to bid on something.
Even if you broaden the scope to include all jet/rocket endeavors, it would
be hard to start from bottom-dead-center and get a marketable product off
the ground in some reasonable span of time. Coupled with the fact that the
industry is plateaued and probably in decline, it wouldn't pay off as well
as some other industries might.

Now figuring out some other use for the facilities & making a bid on it
might be more likely to succeed....

But this is, of course, way off topic. Unless we figure out how to do a
start-up with the Ada engineers that are suddenly willing to consider a
career change. (Hmmmmm.......)

MDC
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