Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina

Re:Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina by js2 on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:15PM (#24550237)

Is that true or did the Clinton administration just look the other way? Regardless, it should have been blocked on anti-trust grounds, and subject to approval from Congress. At least, Ralph Nader thought so:

https://nader.org/1997/01/02/boeing-mcdonnell-douglas-merger...

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Re:Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina by WalterBright on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @03:05AM (#24551745)

Nader is a lawyer and activist, and has no experience running any sort of organization or company, and has no engineering training.

His opinion is of little to no value here.

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Re:Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina by CPLX on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @05:56AM (#24552715)

Deciding if two companies should be allowed to merge is a matter of law and public policy, not engineering.

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Re:Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina by dotancohen on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:16AM (#24553586)

And yet, those are two companies steeped in engineering. One cannot decide, or even understand, the consequences of merging two engineering firms if they know nothing of engineering.

Should the Ministery of Agriculture know nothing of agriculture?

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Re:Boeing gearing up for 787 move to South Carolina by CPLX on Tuesday September 22, 2020 @08:48AM (#24553807)

Of course you can understand the consequences. I don’t need to know how to drill for oil to know that Standard Oil was a monopolistic trust.

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