Ken,
'cause as they say, fool me once, shame on you ... fool me ... fool me again ... shame on ... shame on ... no ... shame on the one who fooled the ... uhm ... :)
hehe
Suffice to say, Rip Harry et al have an unfortunate habit of making monkeys out of us shareholders (like massive selling DURING a CC, lol at us), so now with so much on the line there is a real tendency to distance ourselves from IDCC -- even discredit them somewhat. Pure defense mechanism that everyone has. Because if they yank the rug out from under us again, we really should have seen it coming.
We are all eager for this to be the last time we have to look at IDCC in the "it has potential" light, and hope that we will be able to look at it in the "goddamn what a hot stock I own, with all that cash and that big fat EPS number, damn I am a guru" light. imo anyway :)
Why don't we believe what management has already said