And AOL Time Warner just about ruined the chances of that sort of thing happening again. If any Board of Directors tried to pull off that kind of stock-based d

And AOL Time Warner just about ruined the chances of that sort of thing happening again. If any Board of Directors tried to pull off that kind of stock-based deal today, they're going to have a proxy fight on their hands. These days, the shareholders of the target company are going to want cash. But during Bubble 1.0, plenty of bubble companies acquired other bubble companies.