Darrell and others, In a situation like this, we often look at the possibilities as either being the status quo or as a change we don't particularly like. It is easy for us to assume that if there were no merger that everything would continue on with all of us remaining happy. What is easy to forget is that we can't really know what would happen if there were no merger.
Certainly I am somewhat nervous about this merger. However, I don't have enough information to say for certain whether stopping the merger would be good. I don't know the financial situation of AI Squared, but I would tend to believe that if their financial situation was a strong one, the merger probably would not have happened. In other words, we really don't know for sure that no merger would necessarily have meant that everything would have continued as we have come to like it. One probably should be careful about trying to stop a merger unless one knows for certain that the current financial position is a very good one. The alternative to a merger may not necessarily be what we would like it to be. Best regards, Steve Jacobson -----Original Message----- From: Talk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Darrell Bowles via Talk Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2016 7:21 AM To: Mike Pietruk <[email protected]>; Window-Eyes Discussion List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: action by DOJ How do you all know what type of merger this is? Do you all work on the inside, and can say with insurances, that this is to consolidate rather than to eliminate? Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 16, 2016, at 7:40 AM, Mike Pietruk via Talk <[email protected]> wrote: > > Kim > > Great from hearing from someone who has a legal background on this. > And, taking this a step further, let's say the DOJ actually filed an > action to stop the merger. > That would cost VFO major dollars to defend which they likely don't have. > So, the deal falls through and (probably) AISquared goes under so who is > better off then? > This isn't a merger out of strength; this is a consolidation necistated by > attempted survival in an ever changing landscape and in an economy which > isn't exactly flourishing. > > > > > > I have a great need for Christ; I have a great Christ for my need. > Charles Spurgeon > > > > >> On Wed, 15 Jun 2016, Kim Lingo via Talk wrote: >> >> I would be very surprised if the Department of Justice does anything at all. >> First, this just happened. there is no actual showing of harm to the consumer >> yet. Second, there _are_ other screen readers out there. I'm thinking of >> Narrator, and something I've read about on this list called System Access. >> there may very well be more I don't know about. >> >> Also, this represents possible but not yet proven injury to a very small group >> of consumers in the over-all scheme of things. It's not exactly a headline >> grabber. Then there's budgetary considerations. My area of legal expertise >> before I retired was not anti-trust or consumer litigation. This was covered >> a bit thirty years ago when I was in law school. But you don't have to be a >> lawyer to figure this kind of thing out. We'll just have to wait and see what >> happens. I realize the federal trade commission, or the DOJ, can't do >> anything about this if they don't know; so I'm not telling anyone not to file >> a complaint. I'd just be very surprised if anything happened. Remember, >> there is something even more powerful than a verdict, an injunction, or a >> writ. 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