[crackmonkey] Desperate AOL bribes Netscape employees

[Rick Moen]

Quoting David Cassel (destiny at wco.com):

> SAN FRANCISCO (Wired) - Money can't buy love, it's true, but enough of it
> could buy loyalty.

That's the part of this move that really astounds me.

Conventional wisdom in corporate America is that takeovers of technology
companies are extremely tricky, specifically because most of a tech
company's value lies in the confluence of technology and people.
If you buy a company and tick off its people, they leave and you end
up getting some empty cubicles and a couple of copyrights for your money.
 
Case has to have known that his company's culture is anathema to a huge
percentage of Netscape staffers.  So, I wonder what he imagined he 
would get?

One extra month's salary wouldn't suffice for me.  I'd need _major_
bribery.

Our best hope may be for the core competent people to depart en masse and
form a decent successor firm, somewhere else.  Such a tragic waste.

Which also reminds me:  Were the execu-twits at Netscape Communications who
agreed to this horror refugees from Sirius Cybernetics Corporation's
Marketing Department, or what?

-- 
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