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> Northern Telecom, for all its faults, put out good stuff

Yeah and then suddenly a Chinese company called Huawei started releasing very similar products with a fraction of the R&D budget. I wonder how they pulled that off.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/former-nortel-exec-warns-aga...



Modern Western culture says buy the cheapest now and don’t bother to think about the long term consequences. Including chucking into a landfill and buying a new one a year later.

On every level, be hollowing out our economies, pollution, loss of national autonomy, Western citizens have dug their - our - own graves.




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