EDIT - Whoops, looks like my mysterious source was quite wrong. I will now find Deep Throat and have him killed.
BTW, just cause you have a lot of money, that doen't mean you can buy out any company you want. MS could have UNLIMITED resources, which they pretty much already do, and still not buy out a mom and pop shoe store if they only put up 49% of their company to the public. MS could have 49% of the stock, but Grandpa would still be telling Gates where he can stick it.
Hostile takeovers can only really happen when a company has a strong majority of the company on the open market and the stock is suffering so that when a company like MS offers an inflated price, the other stock holders will bail quickly enough so that the victim does not have the time to counter the predatator. There are exceptions, but not many.
Class dismissed.
