[cleanspeed1]

Think about it. What major corporation, regardless of discipline, has only one financial stream? It would naive to think that when it comes to their portfolios that everything they do is related to what they may have started with when the company was founded.

The responsibility, legally, for corporations is to maximize profits for their share holders. There is no moral imperative about how it's done, as long as it's done. If you have been around long enough to become "Too Big To Fail", you know how to hustle and game the system, and even a failure can be used to make money. This is the name of the game after all, and there is nothing new under the sun.

Now as far as what you mentioned concerning losing a market segment, it's not like they are not aware of what is going on, they know full well what's up. Everyone knows what everyone is doing most of the time, because everyone is either buying or stealing each others technology. This is old hat.

So what's in it for them? Remember the Chauffer's Motto, " Whatever You Imagine."