still makes no sense...restricted or not, eventually those shares would be clear for sell, back into the float, which they plan to reduce
and they have this 40 million (so they say) that they planned on using for a divi (so they day), and now they plan to use it for the buy-back (so they say), and if they did indeed proceed with a buy-back, they would have plenty left from the 40 mil...just odd, imo
edit: and like someone else said, it would be in the 10s of millions of shares...equal or more than the post buy-back float