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mschere

05/31/03 4:20 PM

#29780 RE: Corp_Buyer #29772

Question..Is the Street and all the financial services wrong in utilizing the published diluted shares as of today? You do not know if IDCC would be a $10 Dollar stock today..If, but not for the 8,000,000 extra shares...I see that you are even troubled by the CURRENT existing facts regarding the structure of IDCC!.


IMO, IDCC would be a $29 stock TODAY rather a $25 stock IF we had 50M shares outstanding, rather than 58M shares outstanding. It was not that long ago that we all touted "only 50M shares outstanding" as a favorable fundamental.


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Danny Detail

05/31/03 4:30 PM

#29781 RE: Corp_Buyer #29772

Corp .. You used IMO with regard to how you think the institutions voted last time as well as how you believe they will vote this time. Sounds like an assumption to me.

Most shareholders, unlike you, are not exclusively focused on the single factor of dilution to the exclusion of all others when it comes to evaluating prop #2. Most shareholders, unlike you, acknowledge that options have potential benefits as well as costs to investors and recognize that a cost benefit analysis should be performed even though the benefits are far more difficult to accurately quantify than the costs and are unique to each company. Most shareholders, unlike you, recognize that no company operates in a vacuum when it comes to compensation systems and their proposed actions in that regard must be carefully weighed against those of their competitors and "voluntary reform" could leave a company in an uncompetitive position. But that is why many of the no voters on this board have presented credible arguments for a no vote and you still have not.