et wrote: > On Tuesday 11 February 2003 01:48 pm, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>Ben Reser wrote: >>>Mandrakesoft as a publicly traded company owes it's shareholders the >>>truth. As an open source company it owes it's contributors the truth, >>>even if it isn't required to give it. >> >>Surely it's up to the shareholders to decide what information needs to >>be *publicly* (by which I mean accessible to people who are not >>shareholders) accessible. > > no,,, that is up to the lawyers at this stage, I believe, at least it sure > would be if it was in Fla. and I am sure there are things we would love to > know, but to make "public" at this stage could weel leave the person making > it public liable for any (imagined) damage it might have caused. > > >> Publishing such information could artificially >>deflate stock prices, which is not in the shareholders interest. > > I believe the stock price is frozen, and it is not the shareholders whom have > first say in this. it is the judge and prevailing laws. >
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