I don't know what they would, could, should have done Peter. I was simply saying that I found it strange.
Tom C. >From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Pentax Unveils New Business Plan >Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 08:31:16 -0400 > >Boards of directors are not day to day managers of companies. They meet >periodontally, this may have been their first chance to take any >action. What would they have done before hand. Act like politicians: >Go to the news papers? Make histrionic announcements to the media? Be >real. They got the relevant documents and read through them, at the >next meeting discussed the implications,and voted. Things don't happen >instantly, (unless their minds were already made up which they probably >weren't), after all lots of people thought this would be good for Pentax >as a camera company. Read Herbert Keppler's essay from early this month >http://www.photoreporter.com/article.asp?issueID=80&num=07&vol=15&articleType=fc&articleID=1410 >Everything looked rosy then. > >Tom C wrote: > > You don't find it strange that almost an entire board pops up one day >and > > says "Hey, a couple of months ago our President made a deal affecting >the > > future of our entire corporation without our knowledge, and we didn't do > > anything back then, but now we are?" > > > > I do. I'm not reading anything into anything. I'm simply saying I find > > that incredible and don't believe we have the full story yet. > > > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > > >> From: Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: Pentax Unveils New Business Plan > >> Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 23:06:17 -0400 > >> > >> > >> On May 11, 2007, at 8:10 PM, Tom C wrote: > >> > >>> Months passed between the merger > >>> annoucement and Pentax's unilaterally withdrawing from the agreement. > >>> Something stinks in Denmark. > >>> > >> Idaho. > >> Seriously, you attempt to read so much into these things that is > >> based on pure conjecture tempered by little knowledge of the way the > >> business world works. Take a pill and go to bed. > >> Paul > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > > > > > > > > > > >-- >Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the sekend lw uf >thurmodynamiks aand itz inevibl fxt hon shewb rt nslpn raq liot. > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
