Thank you very much for these great answers! It's really helped me understand some more issues that I didn't understand before. I really appreciate the amount

Thank you very much for these great answers! It's really helped me understand some more issues that I didn't understand before. I really appreciate the amount of time you took to think through that and write a reply. As a complete aside, I actually had inside knowledge of the JDS - Uniphase merger (a friend of mine who worked there inadvertently allowed me to see something that made it was clear that it was happening a day or so before). It took all my self control not to buy up a lot of JDS stock. I always wonder if I would have gotten in trouble (or gotten my friend in trouble)...