So, if the problem is: a. Executives (agents) are using (il)legal tactics to communicate to a potential investor base and b. The are offering a lottery and c. A number of people are stupid/adventures enough to gable thereby raising the share price.
What is the problem? If everything is above board and we get to comment on it and those who invest get to read the comments and still invest, then that is the way the cookie crumbles. We cannot live in a democracy where we build the legal system, the stock market, the rules by which we play the game, then some company (SCO) comes along and manipulates the system for their own benefit (both execs and investors) and then we complain about it because it is outrageous.
We have the following options: 1.Change the legal system to protect the interest of investors/society/targets of litigation so that this issue can be resolved much faster. That will stop me from suing Frank Sinatra for stealing my fictive IP and then risking that either I get famous through suing him or that he might actually pay me off, just to get rid of the problem. 2.Educate our fellow human beings to be contemptuous of such actions and not buy stock.
I personally don't think we should stop anybody from suing anybody, but that we should fast track the process to reach conclusion on this issue quickly, for many reasons including protecting the interest of the massive user base.
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So, if the problem is:
a. Executives (agents) are using (il)legal tactics to communicate to a potential investor base and
b. The are offering a lottery and
c. A number of people are stupid/adventures enough to gable thereby raising the share price.
What is the problem? If everything is above board and we get to comment on it and those who invest get to read the comments and still invest, then that is the way the cookie crumbles. We cannot live in a democracy where we build the legal system, the stock market, the rules by which we play the game, then some company (SCO) comes along and manipulates the system for their own benefit (both execs and investors) and then we complain about it because it is outrageous.
We have the following options:
1.Change the legal system to protect the interest of investors/society/targets of litigation so that this issue can be resolved much faster. That will stop me from suing Frank Sinatra for stealing my fictive IP and then risking that either I get famous through suing him or that he might actually pay me off, just to get rid of the problem.
2.Educate our fellow human beings to be contemptuous of such actions and not buy stock.
I personally don't think we should stop anybody from suing anybody, but that we should fast track the process to reach conclusion on this issue quickly, for many reasons including protecting the interest of the massive user base.