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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> RadioShack employees get pink slip via e-mail
>
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>| The company said Aug. 10 it would cut 400 to 450 jobs, mostly at
>| headquarters, to cut expenses and "improve its long-term competitive
>| position in the marketplace."
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> http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/08/31/radioshack_employees_get_pink_slip_via_e_mail/
>
> To cut expenses, it should have probably gone with Linux, rather than take a
> lead role in Microsoft's anti-Linux crusade.
>
> I remember a discussion from last year. It revolved around Microsoft's
> hoovering of revenues, which leads to layoffs. All that remains are 'box
> booters', rather than developers than extend and improve software for the
> company, as well as the community from which they benefit. That serves as
> valid rationale for governments that choose FOSS.
RadioShack traded as Tandy in the UK (the name Radioshack was already in
use...). They were reasonably successful in the days when the magazine
shelves were littered with electronics titles, to name a few: Everyday
Electonics, Practical Electronics, Elektor, Practical Wireless, Wireless
World, Short Wave Magazine, Electronics Today International (ETI), and
many more.
These days, which kids are buying resistors, transistors, diodes,
capacitors and soldering them together on veroboard or even making their
own PCBs? Not so many, I'll wager.
The demand for components specialists (as Tandy were) has pretty much
evaporated now. If you want them, you can get them off the web anyway.
Has to be said, though, that Maplin had ordering by modem at least
20 years ago, and RS components were on Viewdata > 20 years ago, so
computer-based ordering is hardly new.
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