The Red Sox have the Yankees.
The Bush Administration has Osama Bin Laden.
And, the tech industry used to have securities lawyer Bill Lerach.
An enemy motivates, creates action and resolve. This is exactly what Lerach did in the mid-1990s when he sued nearly every tech company in flimsy, but costly, shareholder lawsuits. The reaction by the industry was to get organized and not let any "Lerach" catch them unprepared in the future. Thus, TechNet was born and industry got normalized to the ways of government affairs and political actions.
Lerach recently pleaded guilty for participating in a long-assumed scheme that payed kickbacks to lead plaintiffs in class-action lawsuits. This lead to a retrospective on the trial lawyer's impact by Bill Ainsworth at the San Diego Union-Tribune that includes a few quotes from yours truly...
(Lerach's) most important legacy as a political player may be that he spurred his enemies in the high-tech industry to become a political powerhouse in their own right...
...as a result, technology companies have transformed national politics into a more friendly environment for their agenda of increasing visas for skilled foreign workers, opposing Internet taxes and overhauling education. Their early backing of Democrats gave the party a new source of campaign cash and something that had seemed largely the province of Republicans: business support.
This made me wonder. Who or what is the closest thing we have to a Lerach today? For better or for worse, no one seems to be even in his league.
But as this is China, it means its 'Christmas bump' in sales is nearly meaningless, thus the October-December sales of iPhone in China is 'far below the world average' for the Christmas quarter
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