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It's not their problem. There's no obligation for them to give any warning at all. They can just go public, short the stock, and watch it fall. The warning is just a polite thing to do


Not even "polite" really, it's benefitting the vendors bottom line at the expense of the researchers.

Do you think there's _any_ chance AMD would have offered these guys money in the sort of magnitude they stand to gain short selling AMD?

I'm pretty sure if they'd asked AMD would have responded with a blackmail lawsuit instantly.




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