Comments on: Oh snap! VeriSign buys Certicom for C$92 million

By: RIM doubles offer for Certicom | BlackBerry Cool

RIM doubles offer for Certicom | BlackBerry Cool — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:50:19 +0000

[...] successfully lobbied the Superior Court to strike down RIM’s hostile bid, instead choosing a larger offer from VeriSign, we recommended that RIM forget the whole mess even happened. Instead, the boys and girls from [...]

By: Gnarlyswine

Gnarlyswine — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:23:14 +0000

not a bad day for RIM – a bad day for Canada and common sense.
In the current economic climate which sounds better for an employee of certicom:
1. Bought over by a local company in the same industrial sector that wants to expand into other fields and make use of your technology.
2. Bought by a bunch of foreign investors who will run down the company in favour of there local ones, sell off infrastructure to pay dividends to shareholders and jump ship at the first sign of trouble as happened with the housing , finance and oil market.

what an incredible lack of vision our courts must have.

By: Gnarlyswine

Gnarlyswine — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:23:00 +0000

what an incredible lack of vision our courts must have.