On Mon, 8 Dec 2003 23:07:51 -0500 "Colin McGregor" <colinmc151-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
The problem is that SCO may pull a few stunts (or get lucky (a drunk/stoned judge?)) along the way that will (for a time) cause the share price to spike up.
Or just as bad for the person attempting this "shorting", a buyout. MS puts up x millions of dollars to buy up a controlling stake in SCO, and you just lost your shorts (pun intended). -- JoeHill ++ ICQ # 280779813 Registered Linux user #282046 Homepage: www.orderinchaos.org +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." -- Hunter S. Thompson -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml