Re: Exodus Down

[Derek Balling <dredd () megacity org>]

At 11:54 AM -0700 7/1/01, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> If the worst  were to happen, and a  few years down the road VA  were to run
> out of cash before being profitable, I'm  pretty sure that SF could be taken
> over by someone else, and of  course all the projects are on ftp[1-x].sf.net
> sites which are mirrored already.

It couldn't be "taken over" by anyone else without cash changing 
hands. It's a corporate asset of VA Linux Systems, Inc.  -- the Inc. 
is the important part there.

Publicly traded companies going belly up don't get to "give" their 
assets away, they sell them - at fair market value - or they face 
lawsuits from shareholders.

D

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