Having outside investors doesn't necessarily preclude employee ownership. Lots of people have lots of money in their company in the form of 401K funds and such. Though in all reality any decent financial planner will caution you against "putting all your eggs in one basket" so something like the enron debacle can wipe out your retirement hopes. I happen to know a guy who used to work for SAIC and they just price the stock every so often and give employees the opportunity to buy/sell so it's not really that different.
As for that disdain for scientists, that's fairly disappointing and frankly somewhat short sited. Engineers today work on the dreams of 2 decades ago. Certainly nobody I know can predict that markets of the future enough to guarantee what is "good" work. How many nobel prize winners do you think worked on things that an average person though "had a value or purpose" at the time? Let's just accept that there's a difference between scientists and engineers. Without engineers we may not have any fancy toys, or trains and plains and automobiles, but without scientists who are willing to dream and brainstorm we wouldn't even have engineers. -Tom On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:58:32 -0800, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 09:04:18 -0800, Michael J McCafferty > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You're right here. SAIC does a great deal of neato stuff, > > correction, they BUILD a bunch of neato stuff. That, I am proud of. > > On my fuzzy scale, SAIC is in the warm zone. You gotta respect people > who actually *build* things. I am sometimes short with people who do > science (or philosophy, for that matter) with no value or purpose. > Also, I really like the fact that SAIC is employee-owned. I wish more > places were like that. > > -todd > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
