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On 08/01/2012 04:53 PM, Eric Windisch wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe, but the way the rules for composition of the board make it
>> impossible for a company to have more than two people sitting on
>> the board. Out of 24 Board Members, what's the worst that can
>> happen?
> 
> HP and Rackspace could force the results of the entire 8 seats. Even
> if they have no explicit interest in filling those seats with
> particular members, they can certainly force the results away from
> candidates whom they disagree with.

So highly unlikely as to be laughable.

a) HP and Rackspace would have to agree
b) They'd have to work in collusion
c) They'd have to convince all of their employees to follow an unethical
path
d) They'd have to do this with hundreds of people involved without any
of those people involved leaking word of the collusion to the internet

Anybody notice that HP and Rackspace are both full of engineering types?
You think you're going to send that email to 700 people and have none of
them rebelliously report it?

Let's not all panic everybody.