[D-fendr]

Sorry Red, not with ya on the Motorola boycott, though I'm not gonna rush out and buy a Startac.

Motorola's in a tough business in a tough time, but they'll bounce back. I agree they let Nokia grab a big market, and that really hurts since Motorola owned it, but Nokia did it with design style, not with high tech. And Motorola is a whole lot more high tech areas than Nokia.

thanks for your post, but Motorola is a well run big corp.

[Red Jones]

but Motorola has publicly said that the American work force can't produce the talent for them to compete in high tech markets and that is the reason why they've given that they are a big user of the indentured servitude H1B visa program. They hire people not with money, but with a promise of US citizenship. Then the employee to get that citizenship must work for Motorola for 5 years. If they employee switches jobs, then the 5 year timetable starts over, so Motorola has a captive labor market of indentured servants just like big companies of 350 years ago. And Nokia has beaten them, yet Nokia has a very small labor market (Finland) to get its' talent from.

It is ridiculous to claim that Motorola is a well run organization. Just a year ago there was a big article in the Wall Street Journal telling how they have chased their own top talent managers away by the practice of nepotism. They've lost so much market share, they've laid off what 50,000 Americans in the last 3 years, they're switching their production from America and to China and Republicans are still saying that because they're a big corporation that they need special provisions in the law and special tax breaks and special indentured servitude labor programs. Ridiculous.