For better or worse, simply being profitible isn't enough if you're a public company. Growth -- of revenue, profits, and ultimately stock price -- is what matters when you're accountable to Wall Street.
Of course, HP's management could have bucked the trend of serving shareholders and stock price above all else. They could have focused instead of serving their community, customers, and employees first.
Such old-fashioned ideas don't hold much sway amongst those running and investing in public companies these days.
Not only is this "news" just a 3dfx press release, the/. headline has half its details completely backwards.
3dfx claims to have received a favorable ruling the the lawsuit they filed against NVIDIA, not in the "salvo" they received from NVIDIA. There is no "retaliation" involved.
(Insert obligatory comments on the rate at which/. is going to hell here.)
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For better or worse, simply being profitible isn't enough if you're a public company. Growth -- of revenue, profits, and ultimately stock price -- is what matters when you're accountable to Wall Street.
Of course, HP's management could have bucked the trend of serving shareholders and stock price above all else. They could have focused instead of serving their community, customers, and employees first.
Such old-fashioned ideas don't hold much sway amongst those running and investing in public companies these days.
Shouldn't that be "Meta-Meta-RCS"?
3dfx claims to have received a favorable ruling the the lawsuit they filed against NVIDIA, not in the "salvo" they received from NVIDIA. There is no "retaliation" involved.
(Insert obligatory comments on the rate at which /. is going to hell here.)
... but isn't an "extra life" in a videogame simply the digital version of an "extra ball" in pinball?