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From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
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Subject: Re: Freeing UNIX and Destroying Novell - Please read this if you care about UNIX (was: UNIX on PDP-11)
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Date: 17 Dec 1994 17:52:51 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa (USA)
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References: <CMM.0.90.0.787367041.bqt@Minsk.DoCS.UU.SE> <3crav0$p21@umbc9.umbc.edu> <1994Dec16.140327@fndcd.fnal.gov>
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<levy@fndcd.fnal.gov> wrote:
}rdavis4@umbc.edu (R. D. Davis) writes:
}> How can we accomplish this?  Well, unless I'm wrong, Novell is a
}> publicly held corporation.  If we buy enough shares of stock in it,
}> guess what we can do?  That's right, we can possibly overthrow or
}> destroy it and save UNIX!

}Take a look at my .sig.  I have no problem with the destruction of Unix.  It'll
}destroy itself anyway.  If Novell is really trying to eliminate unix, more
}power to 'em.  If you buy their stock, you just give them more capital to work
}with.

  Unless Novell is going to issue new stock, presumably they'd be
  buying from the existing owners of previously issued shares.

John
PS, Don't feel bad, a federal government employee with a poor understanding
    of economics isn't exactlty rare...
-- 
John Hascall                   ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''

Systems Software Engineer, ISU Comp Center  +  Ames, IA  50011  +  515/294-9551