[Novalug] Breaking up is hard to do ... the M$-Novell Cat and Mouse Game

[Bryan J. Smith]

Which is why it's very important to know who your majority shareholders are,
not just in name, but especially in attitude.


And people wondered why Red Hat offered countless open source developers
some 500 shares pre-IPO.  ;)



----- Original Message ----
From: Bonnie Dalzell <bdalzell at qis.net>

This morning on NPR there was an article that explained why takeovers 
can occure for publically traded corporations even if the corporation 
management does not want the take over. The stockholders are allowed to 
sue to force the corporation to take action to maximize current profits. I 
had not realized this. It is the problem of "short term profit and long 
term loss" vs "short term loss long term profit".