On 3/6/2010 11:57 AM, Philipp Thomas wrote:
On Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:19:10 -0500, you wrote:
Maybe our friends in Germany will get it back....NOT a bad idea, eh?!
For what this offer means (including a description of the mechanics of such a tender) see http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20100304051547...
Which IMO is the best info I found so far on this topic.
Philipp
Yes a very good write up. I fault it only for failing to put much emphasis on the possibility of Elliott simply walking away as stealthily as it acquired its 8% share. This happens quite frequently these days, they make a big noise, raise the share price, make enough moves to satisfy the SEC that they really did intend to acquire, and it wasn't just a ploy, and then simply slink away after selling off their shares at a profit. IBM cemented its claim to continued access to Suse when Novell took over with the "gift" of 50 million, and I would expect them to be a far more serious White Knight than Microsoft. Microsoft has to know that no one would trust a Linux distro from them. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org