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2001/7/27-28 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux] UID:21975 Activity:high
7/27    Looks like Linus will probably have to start pimping his baby for
        cash soon:
        http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/20701.html
        \_ What's the point of a company's shareholders sueing the company?
           The money the company has all comes from the shareholders anyway.
           If the company needs to pay a penalty, it'll be the shareholders
           paying themselves.  Right?
           \_ Its fraud. If the shareholders were cheated by the founders,
              the founders will have to pay out of thier own pocket.
        \_ Maybe the threat of shareholder lawsuits might begin to
           convince aggresive marketing/exec types to stop hyping their
           warez so much before they're proven and start being more realistic
           about ship dates.
           \_ the only winners in shareholder lawsuits are the lawyers. -tom
        \_ Isn't Linus a software guy?  Since when did he go into chip
           design?
           \_ He's one of the principles at Transmeta. Unfortunately he knows
              about as much about chip design as he knows about OS design,
              (for the unwashed and holy, he knows didley squat about OS
               design) so basically he ended up overhyping his shit and
              cheating a bunch of poor gullible investors whose only flaw
              was that they believed his snake oil pitch.
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Transmeta hit with second securities fraud class action By 33 Tony Smith Published Friday 27th July 2001 14:35 GMT Transmeta has been hit with a second securities fraud class action suit filed on behalf of shareholders frustrated with the company's ability to ramp up clock speeds. The suit, filed by Washington, DC legal firm the Law Office of Mark McNair, alleges Transmeta issued "false and misleading statements about its Crusoe line of microprocessors". Essentially, the suit claims, Transmeta's bosses made promises about the technology on the back of which the company's shareprice soared between 7 November 2000 - when it IPO'd - and 20 June this year - the date Transmeta failed to announce the much-anticipated 1GHz Crusoe TM5800. Worse, Transmeta appears to have committed the clearly unforgiveable sin of being caught up in the semiconductor market slump which necessitated it issue a profit warning for its second quarter. Behind all this was, the suit alleges, an intention on the part of Transmeta's principals to mislead shareholders by talking up the value of the company's stock. The Mark McNair suit's allegations mirror those of a suit filed a month ago by Milberg Weiss. That suit claims that Crusoe can't offer high performance and low power consumption at the same time, contrary to what the chip designer was saying before its IPO. Rather, significant performance attributes were being sacrificed in order to gain longer battery life," it says, as does the new suit. The suit defines the phrase "significant performance" to mean "comparable with AMD and Intel processors". Transmeta's IPO prospectus promised the 1GHz Crusoe would ship January this year. Following the company's statement at the launch of its 800MHz TM5800 on 27 June, the 1GHz part is not expected to ship before January 2002, and potentially not for six months after that.