| From: | The Deb Decker <RJR96326@****.UTULSA.EDU> |
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| Subject: | A, B, I C U! |
| Date: | Fri, 3 Sep 1993 08:37:04 -0500 |
buy before getting access to the company secret. It depends: Security
Clearance is not directly related to ownership.
However, if corp A gets controlling stock in a corp, they can control
the direction the corp's research takes, change the board of directors
around, and arrange for the secret to be shared.
However, in Corp Shadowfiles (which I finally get to look at) it mentions
a couple of other things to note before trying the above.
One: There are many laws, as well as social pressure, to keep corps of
the same product from buying out similar corps. That is, Fuchi can't buy
out Renraku, because then the two could price-fix and make life difficult.
That doesn't mean it doesn't go on, but when it does corps like to be
quiet about it.
Remember, corps of different types CAN buy each other freely. Like, Yamatetsu
(I biogen compamy, I think) could buy Renraku (a computer corp).
If a corp does get the secfret of the other corp, they have two options. One,
they can take the secret and sell the bought out firm-something that's likely
to irritate other shareholders, and safe only in the unlikely event that the
corp definitely controls over half the stock. STwo, they can keep the corp
around for future uses, espec if they have a good research group, good
advertising, or otherwise make up significantly for areas in which the
purchaser is lacking.
Oh, and a third option mixes the two. Buyout Corp, which is good at everything
BUT advertising, sells of everything BUT the advertising branch of Raided Corp.
Well, that's all for now. More later as I read corp Shadowfiles.
J Roberson
Two heads are more numerous than one
