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Nov 20 07:23:47 <Party> Hey guys
Nov 20 07:29:47 <Party> Is there anyway to port WebOS on to my Nexus S?
Nov 20 18:20:23 <EricBlade1> http://www.zdnet.com/hp-autonomy-had-serious-accounting-improprieties-7000007660/?s_cid=e539
Nov 20 18:22:32 <fxspec06> yikes
Nov 20 18:22:46 <fxspec06> so, does this mean that webos isn't the worst thing leo screwed up?
Nov 20 18:28:11 <EricBlade1> well, they supposedly spent around about $3b for palm/webos, to get very close to zero return, and they're still sinking money into it
Nov 20 18:28:30 <EricBlade1> although i'd guess probably at a near negligible rate now
Nov 20 18:29:16 <EricBlade1> in this case, they spent $8billion more than what they should've, and i don't think it's clear that there's been any benefit to HP yet
Nov 20 20:50:29 <EricBlade1> let's see. HP write off $1B for webOS hardware, then $11B for EDS, and now $5-$8B for Autonomy. Jeezus.
Nov 20 20:50:45 <EricBlade1> that's a whole lot of money that just went vaporous
Nov 20 20:59:27 <fxspec06_> i bet leo got some huge bonuses for those acquisitions.
Nov 20 21:04:47 <EricBlade1> Calculating at current value, that's more than a third of the entire company
Nov 20 21:05:06 <EricBlade1> closer to half
Nov 20 21:08:52 <fxspec06_> yeah. that is kinda huge. nearly ruined the whole co
Nov 20 22:00:45 <dwc-> well, down 12% today
Nov 20 22:00:56 <dwc-> 23B
Nov 20 22:01:20 <dwc-> add back 20b and that looks a little better
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