"John R. Sheets" wrote: > > On Friday, October 13, 2000, Chris Opp <cop7586 at hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > In the news recently Corel has made plans to be bought out by Microsoft. I > > was just wondering what people thought about that? Do you think that they > > are sell outs? > > Err, not even close! Microsoft invested in Corel with "non-voting" > shares. MS does not want Corel to die (just like it doesn't want Apple > to die), or even to buy it out. The fewer major competitors MS has, the > more likely it'll get nailed for monopolistic behavior. > > One theory is that MS's investment in Corel is an under-the-table > settlement of their past lawsuits against MS. > > John > > I suspect it is a combination of several reasons, no single one of which would be enough to justify the purchase alone. Non-voting stock is a pretty silly concept when the company will go bankrupt without the capital the stock represents. "I think your company is becoming a bad investment because of your focus on Linux, I think I'm going to need to sell your shares short..." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org