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Disney Board Turns Down Comcast Takeover Bid
scifience writes "Disney's board of directors today turned down Comcast's hostile takeover bid, reports MSNBC. The board expressed confidence in Eisner's leadership. One interesting quote released by the board is that they will, '...carefully consider any legitimate proposal...' Does this mean that they did not believe Comcast's offer to be legitimate?"
With Pixar being lead by "You know who" , will MS buy Disney .... (we'll see Mickey mouse using windows soon....)
I'm not sure I'd have any desire to go to Comcast World.
Well, it's a good thing Disney turned it down. If they hadn't, it would have been like joining Beauty with the Beast. Having two huge companies like that would have created A Whole New World, and who knows what problems that would have caused!
Seriously, though, Disney is going to have Be Prepared for the future -- who knows where it's going to take them...with their animation studio pretty much in shambles. Until they figure out what to do, though, it's just Hakuna Matata!
Okay...I tried...
Gates owns 7 percent of Comcast. They've got the money if they need it.
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No mandatory goofy screensavers. Thank you god.
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"So your offer's been rejected, congratulations, Comcast! What are you going to do now?" "I'm going to Hostiletakeoverland!"
You think they would have gotten further with their Mickey Mouse offer for Micky Mouse! I wonder if the board wore their Micky Mouse ears while carefully considering this "legitimate proposal".
As far as what they meant by "Legitimate Proposals"
M-I-C: See you real soon!
Where are all the corn-ball comments about it being a Mickey Mouse deal and that it is just f***ing goofy.
It seems insurmountable for any organization to manage such a behemoth like Disney. Even, Disney itself.
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Do the senators that disney keeps buying to extend the copyright periods come with this deal or will Comcast have to purchase them seperatly?
How about Phil Collins and Elton John?
we must ask ourselves:
WWWD?
plan a whole day for your Comcast World visit. If you want to see Mike the Cable Technician, he will only show up at some time between 9 AM and 5 PM, and you don't want to miss him.
You'd have to reschedule, and only Jebus knows how long that would take.
I thought they did consider it... just because they rejected it doesn't mean they didn't consider it, right? :P
Well, Disney must have looked at the offer, and rejected it because it was clearly . . . Mickey Mouse.
Thank you. Thank you. Try the overpriced hamburgers and soggy fries while you wait to ride Splash Mountain.
LOL! Knew I was gonna see this on Slashdot someday.
:) Geeks!
Goes right up there with, "IANAL, but basedon what I read on Slashdot...
Way to go! Wonder whats coming next?
I've never had sex, but based on what I hear on Slashdot?
*shakes head* *mumbles* *walks away*
I can almost see it - Foppish CEO's duking it out in ring with CAT5 cabling, shuriken-shaped IT-management CDs, and full-length PCI-X cards.
Some might argue that Euro Disney is their poison pill. ; )
I believe his hobby is "swimming in pool of money filled by severance package."
Holy Crap! It's true! Scrooge McDuck is Eisner!
Man, I was kinda looking forward to this: Since Bill has a stake on Comcast, maybe he could have gotten some of the rights to Disney cartoon characters, and incorporated them into Windows?
Imagine if every time an application crashed, the Rescue Rangers came and helped you restart it.
Or replacing Clippy with Donald Duck, and then buying the Donald-to-English translator for only $49.95.
Or instead of seeing that horribly drawn comic dog in the Search menu, we actually got to see an animated Pluto?