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> It was destroyed by a right wing government which refused to "pick winners", and grant broader governmental innovation funding. The Conservative party took o
by wolfhumble 6y ago
> It was destroyed by a right wing government which refused to "pick winners", and grant broader governmental innovation funding.
The Conservative party took over the Norwegian government in 1981 and held the power alone or with coalition parties until 1990. I am by no means an expert in Norsk Data trivia, but if Norsk Data was the second largest company in Norway in 1987, I have a hard time understanding that Norsk Data was destroyed by 'the right wing government which refused to "pick winners"'.
In this article 1] the government is not mentioned and the author Arild Haraldsen asks the question:
"Could Norsk Data have been Saved? Nothing suggests that it could".
1] https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.digi.no%2Fartikler%2Fdette-visste-du-ikke-om-norsk-data%2F300480 https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...
- unixhero 6y agoOf course it could have been saved with proper funding, restructured, could have been nationalised, many other options.