Re: [opensuse] ms/novell merge? (again?)
---- John Andersen <jsa@pen.homeip.net> wrote:
On Saturday 31 March 2007, Michael Folsom wrote:
Good catch -
Actually this ain't new - the Novell/Suse bashers have been saying this for a while now.
By-the-by, did you know IBM owns 10% of Novell? Wonder what they would say about this?
If they did, they would show up here: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=NOVL
So I guess this is another April fools item...
I believe that would only show there if they actually declared that they own the stock. Or, they have the ability to use another name, common practice.
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On Sunday 01 April 2007, sfreilly@adelphia.net wrote:
I believe that would only show there if they actually declared that they own the stock. Or, they have the ability to use another name, common practice.
Once you own over 5% you can no longer hide behind another name such as your brokerage or a shell company set up for that purpose. There would be no reason for IBM to throw 50 million publicly toward Novell in a move to assure continued access to Suse for their eServer products, and then to try to hide the fact that they own stock. Since Novell is a 2.49Billion company, you can see that 50million is a pittance. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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