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I work with a ton of ex-Nortel engineers in town. All of them agree that the company was grossly mismanaged. The CxOs fudge the accounting, ignored warnings about their systems, and the burden of Nortel's fall should be mainly shouldered by management.

Huawei hacks are the sideshow, the burning tire fire of management is the main act.

Your parents aren't the only ones burnt by Nortel. Lots of Nortel employees indulged with the paper gains of their stock, only for it to crater and created lots of financial strain.

But like most articles with a question as the title, the answer is typically no. This article, frankly, is trying so hard to rewrite history, to divert attention from the main act to the side show.