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Much the same happened in the UK some years ago, to General Electric, run by Arnold Weinstock[^]. A successful company that made money by sticking to its core business and not throwing money away on mad projects. Once it got taken over by "people who understood modern business" it lost value and credibility very quickly.
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Personally I think they diversified too quickly. The jump from guitars to home entertainment is just too large.
What they should have done is gone, is going, or in the direction of other instruments or in the amplification realm (like Fender) or into pedals and effects.
From amplification to sound systems is not a too huge step and from that they could jump to their home entertainment business desire. (I'm talking at least 2 decades here)
But that's just my opinion. They'll probably sell of most or all of their side businesses and will have to find a new invester for the instrument making part. Now I need to check my bank account if I have enough money 
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Pedals, other instruments, it is all small scale though. Home entertainment is a massive one.
Clearly someone at Gibson said "we have this massive name, iconic, if we make consumer electronics for a huge market like this we are bound to dominate it"
But they got it wrong, their product didnt sell/didnt appeal outside of the music world, or their product wasnt good enough.
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They have tried to sell amplifiers in the past and was not particularly successful for them.
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Should have been a good indicator back then, that things could not go as planned with their diversification 
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They literally shred their capital.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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These seem to be the opinions of musicians who while they have a genuine interest in Gibson are not business people. The worldwide sales of Gibson and Fender guitars are under pressure from cheaper alternatives (often unashamed copies). The actions of the executives could have been genuine albeit misguided measures to bolster the company and save the brand. No company can rest on it's laurels, it is either growing or declining. Gibson appears to have some good chance of survival but many iconic brands have succumbed. This is often due to unfair competition in the form of blatant theft of intellectual property.
Peter Wasser
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
modified 8-May-18 6:20am.
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Real Gibson guitars are expected to be expensive in the world of musicians.
That's the way it is.
When (and if) you sell them, you will get good money for them.
That's not the case for the copies.
Leslie Nielsen:
We're sorry to bother you at such a time like this, Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn't dead then.
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The problem with damned good products is they are, well, damned good. I'm using my Garmin Forerunner 310XT since 2012. It doesn't break.
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It seems to me that it was a more dramatic version of what happened to Fender when CBS had its hold over them, 'you make guitars out of wood, you have a furniture factory' and it went down hill from there, you have to wonder if the older crafts men at Legend who were in the old Gibson factory before it moved, kept going might take back the name. Gibson didn't have the same foot print Fender did in amplifiers and pedals. I have seen a Gibson amp from the 70's but it was not great. Did Gibson see then Fender example and try to copy it?
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Semi-related note- among my dad's five guitars, there is a 1956 Gibson J-45 Sunburst acoustic. When he passed away, he stipulated that his wife would put the guitar names in a hat and all five of us kids would get to pick from the hat. This event has not yet occurred. But I hope I'm the one that draws the Gibson. I fear that my brother and sisters would immediately sell it - it's worth at least $5k.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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What a great thing to put in a will.
(I should probably put my GT6 and my whisky collection in a similar clause)
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Bookends showing Pete using the Force. Too bad my 3D printer is too small to make them large enough.
Thingiverse[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Ok, then how about this?[^]
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'm sure Pete will be much happier with this one, it shows his concern for hygiene 
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Then that's settled. Use the soap, Luke!
This one[^] I would like to have, but I would need a industrial printer for it.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
modified 7-May-18 17:27pm.
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Hmmm,
That's not a bookend. That's Pete writing his latest article on the Surface Pro. If you look closely at his hands you can see him making the MVVM sign. He's probably saying "Use the MVVM"
Best Wishes,
-David Delaune
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If I see the scale correctly, that must be some 100 inch tablet.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Nope,
Our Pete is 3 inches.
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So that's why he always complains about being stepped on. Tell him he looks taller in the movies. 
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Approve of this thread do I.
This space for rent
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And PMSL for the rest of the day will I be too.
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Is anyone watching the MSbuild with the paired programming example where the two devs are looking at the code remotely and editing it with each other and running?
Does anyone want to do that? More than once in a lifetime, maybe? \
dev answer: NO!!!
EDIT
Dilbert Comic Strip on 2003-01-11 | Dilbert by Scott Adams[^]
modified 7-May-18 15:16pm.
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I have not tried it. But I have seen it work quite fine when the two devs are equally strong, and are generally in synch.
But two random devs paired? I have my doubts.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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