patrick mitchel wrote:

and the same company that owns ryobi now (recent acquisition) owns milwaukee
tools - better get yer "good " sawzall now....sigh

So, a Hong Kong company (Techtronic Industries) buys out a Swedish
company's (Atlas Copco) brand.
If you want to buy a tool from Milwaukee when it was owned by a US
company, you'll have to buy one made before 1995.
What makes you think that if one company owns two or more different
brands that they all will be of equal quality?
As already mentioned, Daimler owns Chrysler (not the other way around!).
Does that mean that the Mercedes will be of the same quality as the
Dodge Neon, or vice versa?
Ford owns Aston Martin, Jaguar, Land Rover, Volvo, and Mazda. Did any of
those 'foreign' cars gain or lose quality due to the change of ownership?