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Re: Redhat caught giving away million$ in "gold parachutes" to execs as it prepares to enter bankruptcy

After takin' a swig o' grog, Rex Ballard belched out
  this bit o' wisdom:

> On Jun 26, 3:18 pm, Ezekiel <Z...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Rick wrote:
>> > On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:35:15 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:
>> >> Redhat is spending $100's of millions
>> >> of dollars to artificially inflate
>> >> the stock price to support hand-outs
>> >> (corporate welfare) to their
>> >> management. (snip)
>
> In case you hadn't taken ecomics 101 a company that is buying back
> it's stock is a GOOD thing.  It usually means that they are more
> profitable and are using that profit to regain control of outstanding
> stock, which tends to make the remaining outstanding stock more
> valuable.
>
> <rest of Rex's explanation snipped>
>
> I don't see Red Hat going bankrupt any time soon.

Well, obviously Zeke was just parodying Roy, Rex.  Don'tcha get it :-D

>> > Why are you on an anti-Red Hat crusade lately?
>>
>> Don't you think that it's relevant to this newsgroup that a major Linux
>> company like Redhat is about to go bankrupt?

Where's Tim?

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