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Re:An ARM Server That Is Banned in the US by bell-cot on Friday August 05, 2022 @05:31PM (#32362213)
> Huawei destroyed Nortel through grand-scale espionage and robbery.

At least according to Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nortel#Accounting_restatements ), Nortel had some epic accounting issues long before the hacks (of both Nortel & Cisco) which your source claims. Cisco is still around.

Perhaps Nortel self-destructed, with no more help from Haiwei than Enron or Bernie Madoff needed, and it feels better to blame Dark Lord China for Bad_Thing happening?

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Re:An ARM Server That Is Banned in the US by deepdriver on Friday August 05, 2022 @06:32PM (#32362737)
The hacking of Nortel, which goes back at least to the year 2000, started around the same time Dunn began messing with the numbers:

https://archive.ph/TZM9A

Whatever other issues Nortel had, the theft of their IP, internal communications, and strategic plans certainly didn't help.

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