this buyout-then trash the co. scenario has been rampant ever since electronic shares were invented !!! am sick of it
that's why owning piles of shares is a way of going broke
eg goog vs aapl Apple countersued, and Google became involved in the conflict when it purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion in 2012, partially to acquire thousands of patents it could use to defend its Android mobile-operating system from intellectual property claims from its rival, according to Daisuke Wakabayashi and Rolfe Winkler of the Wall Street Journal. Read more at http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1113148987/apple-google-patent-battle-comes-to-an-end-
lost out on MOANA-LOWLA too--- crooks can smell a money deal a mile away