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  From: [email protected] (Paul Flaherty)
  Subject: Re: Sillycon Valley history
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  Date: 11 Mar 93 18:25:19 GMT
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  [email protected] (Dave Palmer) writes:
  >From what I understand, the shine is rubbing off. The cost of housing is
  >ludicrous, and companies are fleeing to places like Arizona. But you
  >still can't throw a silicon wafer in Cupertino without hitting an Apple
  >facility.
  
  I think it's fair to say that Silicon Valley is dead.  Cheap venture capital,
  minimal startup cost, access to university researchers, and good inter
  business communications fueled an engine which turned ideas into products.
  You can now find venture capital elsewhere, with the discount rate being
  what it is.  The cost of housing and office space has spiraled out of
  control, thanks to the environmentalists and Prop 13.  The trade secrets
  and intellectual property mania have pretty much destroyed open cooperation.
  The universities remain, but aren't the driving force they used to be.
  
  The place has a much different, more ossified feel to it than it did seven
  years ago.
  
  -=Paul Flaherty, N9FZX | "My boy, we are pilgrims in an unholy land."
  ->[email protected]   |                                -- Dr. Henry Jones Sr.