[crackmonkey] Desperate AOL bribes Netscape employees

[evangelo at pigdog.org]

>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.

If _I_ were at AOL, and I wanted to keep the Netscape people happy, I would
send EACH AND EVERY ONE of them a FREE AOL disk with 20 FREE hours of AOL
for FREE!

They're all "cybergeeks" and they'd _love_ free online time.  Sure, it'd be
expensive, but it's only by going that extra mile that AOL is going to keep
its Netscape employees happy.

~ESP

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