Boltar wrote:
You seem to imagine that people would wish to buy more 1995 stock. You

Well they did. Or at least they ordered an update of the 1996 stock
which
became the 95 stock.

10 years ago, which is Actually Quite A Long Time (although if you were
being especially pedantic, you could point out that LU/Tube Lines
bought a reasonable quantity of new 1996 stock that was delivered last
year...)

also seem to imagine that Alstom would sell some to Metronet at a decent
price and also provide the necessary IPR to allow Bombardier to maintain

If they earn money from it yes they would. In business money is money
is
profit.

Sort of, but companies are often wary of selling to (and especially
sharing IP rights with) their biggest competitors, because this raises
issues that go beyond the profit on the individual sale.

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John Band
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