Exodus Down
Derek Balling
dredd at megacity.org
Sun Jul 1 21:30:08 UTC 2001
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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