> OK I posted that spinning off a portion of your manufacturing is bad, but I think your statement overstates the issue. I was addressing the statement of "(..

> OK I posted that spinning off a portion of your manufacturing is bad, but I think your statement overstates the issue. I was addressing the statement of "(...) selling the factory to a private-equity firm would let Boeing focus on final assembly (...)", which corresponds to outsourcing manufacturing of everything and anything used in a plane, up until the last step of the manufacturing process. It's one thing to leverage existing third-party products in your own product line. It's an entirely different thing to aim for an Ikea-like approach of buying everything and just put the thing together once you get all the parts.