Mike Morris WA6ILQ wrote: > At 08:37 AM 11/05/07, you wrote: >> Motorola Bidding to Acquire Control of Vertex Standard (Yaesu) >> >> http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b9EE2DFC5-414E-4210-956A-2ACDC840E4CE%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo >> >> <http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7b9EE2DFC5-414E-4210-956A-2ACDC840E4CE%7d&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo> >> >> >> >> http://www.motorola.com/mediacenter/news/detail.jsp?globalObjectId=8909 _ >> 8838_23 > > The Vertex board has voted to accept it, so it looks like a done deal > (unless some > someone / some agency / some jurisdiction files some anti-monopoly legal > paperwork).
It smells a lot to me like a way for Yaesu to sell to the U.S. Military easier... and Moto to "outsource" without looking like they sent jobs off-shore? They can now easily let the Yaesu "Division" specify that rigs are built in the cheapest sweatshops in Asia-Pac while staying arms-length from it, to avoid the political fall out. Thoughts? Think I'm off-base? Definitely interesting/entertaining if nothing else... whether we're watching a good movie or a bad one remains to be seen until Act II, I guess. Nate WY0X
