[ale] Red Hat sues SCO

[John Marasco]

>Glad you have your thinking cap on.
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The "Securities Exchange Act" bars individuals and organizations from 
organizing an action to deliberately manipulate stock prices.  If 
Microsoft or myself initiated and/or organized such an action it would 
be illegal.  The case is just a lot easier to prove against Microsoft.  
No one should try to initiate and/or "organize" such a movement.  It may 
seem like splitting hairs but there is a difference (5-10) between 
suggesting (hey wouldn't it be neat if) and organizing (lets' email 
everyone on every Linux list and set up a web site with instructions as 
well as a brokerage account plus incorporate and set up shell 
corporation to stay below purchasing disclosure limits, etc...).


Individuals should decide on their own to make an investment or not.  
Individuals should decide on their own to pass this information on.  I 
put forth what I thought was a good idea for making money (individually 
or as a group) as well as administering social justice (IMO).  Whether 
or not it is a good idea for making money will become clear in the next 
12 months so there is no need to discuss the idea unless you are 
considering it.  I thought the idea was based on shared values, but I 
seem somewhat misguided on that aspect.  I've passed on most of the key 
data I used to reach my decision so individuals have enough information 
to make up their own mind.  If anyone doesn't t think it will make money 
or doesn't think it administers social justice then don't do it.  If you 
have never heard of the things I'm talking about or they are new to you 
then don't do it.  No one should feel pressured into shorting stock.  
Shorting is obviously not a well-understood investment vehicle and I was 
wrong in raising the issue here as well as wrong for trying to explain 
how it works and why this is a good time to use it.  My poor judgement 
now compels my to try and dispel the most misguided illusions.


Drew, didn't you argue last month that the government couldn't be 
trusted to protect us and that is why people needed guns?  Now you trust 
the government (of which our legal system is a part) so much that you 
think they are the ones to restrain corporate greed?  If you believe you 
are having a serious discussion about a serious topic then please 
respond off line and I'll try to explain the holes in your "points" in 
greater detail.  If this is some sort of delayed response to the gun 
discussion then please let it go.

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